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Severe Tire Rub Issue
We have a single axle trailer that came with our boat. I'm assuming it's a 1994 trailer to go with our 1994 Prostar 205.
Last year, one of the leaf springs broke as we were driving home from the lake. We noticed the issue almost immediately and pulled over to see what happened. We happened to be about 2 miles from home, so my husband drove about 5 mph on the shoulder back to the house and parked it.
Instead of replacing the leaf springs with mastercraft products, he went to a trailer place in St Joe, MO and had some custom springs made, based on our old springs. At first they seemed great - really raised the boat trailer up nice, and gave us more clearance. However, something we noticed right away is that pivot bracket (I"m not sure if that's the right name but it's a bracket that the leaf springs lay on) doesn't lay correctly underneath, like it used to.
Within a few weeks (couple hundred miles of driving due to vacation and some ski show activities), our brand new tires were rubbing off really bad on the edge. It's almost like the tires are toed-in, if this is an alignment problem with a car. One tire was rubbing off on the outside edge and the other tire appeared to be rubbing on both edges. They are at the point where they won't last for many more miles and they are only a month old.
Do you think this could be caused by the new leaf springs? Or, should we consider buying a new axle or spindles? We're not sure where to begin. Truth be told, we want to buy a dual axle trailer, but we don't know where to go about finding one of those either.
We are going on our lake vacation in a few weeks and really need to get this fixed. We don't believe the tires will make it back down there this year.
THANKS!!!!
Shey
Last year, one of the leaf springs broke as we were driving home from the lake. We noticed the issue almost immediately and pulled over to see what happened. We happened to be about 2 miles from home, so my husband drove about 5 mph on the shoulder back to the house and parked it.
Instead of replacing the leaf springs with mastercraft products, he went to a trailer place in St Joe, MO and had some custom springs made, based on our old springs. At first they seemed great - really raised the boat trailer up nice, and gave us more clearance. However, something we noticed right away is that pivot bracket (I"m not sure if that's the right name but it's a bracket that the leaf springs lay on) doesn't lay correctly underneath, like it used to.
Within a few weeks (couple hundred miles of driving due to vacation and some ski show activities), our brand new tires were rubbing off really bad on the edge. It's almost like the tires are toed-in, if this is an alignment problem with a car. One tire was rubbing off on the outside edge and the other tire appeared to be rubbing on both edges. They are at the point where they won't last for many more miles and they are only a month old.
Do you think this could be caused by the new leaf springs? Or, should we consider buying a new axle or spindles? We're not sure where to begin. Truth be told, we want to buy a dual axle trailer, but we don't know where to go about finding one of those either.
We are going on our lake vacation in a few weeks and really need to get this fixed. We don't believe the tires will make it back down there this year.
THANKS!!!!
Shey
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