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Tuesday, April 30, 2013

Ok lets get HIGH and reach for the star,s

                     AS  you see the trailers not level to the truck  so it,s time to do something about it
                   there was not much gain when i went up in tire size about 3/4in  it still needs to go up
 even when i picked it up the first day this was somthing i need to address sometime down the line
                                                                 well today was the day
                                                          this photo  was before
                                            now on the back we started out with 20in

on the front 25 .5
                             now after taking all that time to setup the 2 new axles with spring under
                                                               well lets say i goofed up , so now to make it right
                                                                               It time to Flip It
                                        now to start off with the kit to flip 1 axle cost 65$ pr axle
                                   now theres no way this Old boys paying 130$ +plus tax+shipping
                        thanks to old Cape Cod New England Enginuity Engineering ( plus the Internet)
                        this is how we did it,  did i tell you i like to steal stuff from the internet                                                                                  Well    Well lets say its called Improvising Engineering  to work for you ( me)  
                      well the carrier were 4.50 each x4 = 18.00$   bolts 8 and  long nut 8 =8$  =26$
                                  now can you see were im going with this
                                       O and yes i do have a welder   setup and welding   time 45 mins
                                             dam i love it when a plan works out my way
                                  now after the flipping was done  this is how it cane out  SWEET
        now on the outher side we had wires to deal with so it was drop the axle take the spring off put it on top and button it back on peace -O- cake
 as you see the bolt is welded to thr carrer  however the long nut is used to addjust that  carrer to sit true with the old carrer  pretty slick A
the carriers were welded to the axle  even so it was not needed welding was only a stop gap backup
                                   now as you can see we came out a lot higher
                                                                time to do this job 3hr,s with 2 coffee breaks

now in the back we went from 20 in to 24,4  = + 4.4
                                     and the front went from 25.5  to 30    = +4.5
                                           so our gain was 4.5 to  5.4
                                      plus add 4.5in to our step up to get in the trailer as well
before
after
after is much better with
plus 103$ still in my pocket to boot


now the test will be hooking it to the  truck

well part of the test is done today
seting the trailer up so its level we have a pin  to ground of 50in
now the truck pinbox to ground 50in
i think if and when we mate it up  we may drop 2in i can live with that

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