Recent content by cybertron

Yeah, I need to get to a scale and see what kind of weight I've got on the axle when it's loaded for a trip.  I was concerned that maybe I was overweight when I thought I had trashed both the bearings and the suspension, but with it actually being bearings (totally my fault for not re-greasing...

The axle or the tires?  It's definitely getting different tires, whether they're any better will depend on what the trailer place has.  If they're too bad I figure I'll replace them with something better and keep the crappy ones as spares.

Yeah, locks are to keep honest people honest.  If someone's determined enough there's probably not much you can do. I look at locking my trailer door the same way.  If someone wants to get in badly enough it's going to take them about 5 seconds to pry open a window and reach in to open the...

I realize it's an ancient thread, but I just bought one of these and I couldn't believe what a difference it makes.  I think the trailer shower has more pressure (though much less volume, of course) than my house shower now.  The spray from when it hits me is throwing water over my shower...

I locked both my hitch and coupler back when I used a $300 weight distributing hitch, but since I bought a new truck and just use a standard 2" ball hitch I don't worry about that anymore (also, the pin for my hitch lock completely rusted out).  I do still always lock the coupler on the trailer...

Unfortunately a poor install wouldn't surprise me.  My same-year (but much smaller) Rockwood came with the AC hanging partway off the ceiling.  I thought maybe there was a reason for it until it sagged enough that it started to hit the top of my bathroom door.  At that point I pulled off the...

Just got some really good news!  It's not the axle, it was the tire.  One of the belts broke and allowed the tire to expand larger than it's supposed to be.  Being a single axle trailer it wasn't obvious what had happened.  I just thought the tire was shaped funny because it had been rubbing on...

One thing that's going to make replacement tricky is that my axles were made by Axis, who apparently were bought by Al-Ko and then Dexter in the subsequent years, so there isn't a 1:1 replacement part available.  My axles also seem to have a different bracket design from the Torflex axles I've...

I got back from my first trip on the new hub bearings thinking that everything had held up well and my hub temps were right in line with where they should be, even after 7 or 800 miles of towing at 65.  Then a couple days later I noticed that my TPMS was reading a few PSI low on one of the...

I don't know that I've ever used mine to fill a completely flat tire, but I use one of these for all my tire top-offs now: http://www.homedepot.com/p/Ryobi-18-Volt-ONE-Dual-Function-Inflator-Deflator-Tool-Only-P731/203060297  I did have a tire get pretty low recently (25 or 30 PSI) and was able...

$300 to repack bearings?  Apparently I'm in the wrong line of work.  :) Leaving on my first real trip with the new bearings tonight.  Fingers crossed that everything is good to go! Although I'm actually only driving about an hour tonight.  I figured it would be good to break up the trip...

I probably towed my trailer less than a thousand miles per year, with the possible exception of the first summer and one long trip to Michigan that was about 1200 miles itself.  I doubt I had 10000 miles total on it and my bearings were still shot, so it's not just the mileage. I wouldn't...

Like I did.  :-\ I've had my trailer for about 7 years now, usually just local trips so I don't put a lot of miles on it.  That was my justification for not having re-greased my hubs, even though I know you're supposed to do it yearly anyway. Fortunately, I caught it before anything failed...

I tried the strap ones and didn't like them.  They vibrated so much that it was hard to keep them adjusted right, and the rubber started to crack almost immediately.  After two years the straps broke (fortunately before I left).  Last year I picked up a couple of these...

I've made plenty of mistakes - forgetting to fill up with water when I arrive (which has resulted in further haste-induced mistakes), trying to back into a site in the dark from an awkward spot with a lot of trees around (no damage, thankfully), but I think the top one has to be when I put a...