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Old 05-10-2006, 06:49 PM   #10 (permalink)
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Cool Re: Anyone ever lift their travel trailer?

All standard R V trailer axles have a bend in them, that is their torsion so to speak. The bend is what helps to absorb the road shock weight load etc.. To flip the axles as we have done many times before is to place them under the leaf spring rather than on top of them. This is done by moving the related hardware to the under side of the axle with the axle itself, but gets sticky if you have shocks. We stopped doing it a long time ago because of stories of axles flying off because of support issues to the springs. It can be done sucessfully if the suspension system you have is right for it. Be sure your tech is famillar with this kind of mod and be sure they will stand behind their work!! My two experienced cents and good luck ! Oh by the way the camber etc is all in the welding of the backing plate mounts from the get go, not much you can do to change that after the fact!!

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