Hi Everyone,
For those of you who always ask about the Over-Under conversion, here's some
pics to show a job completed. I can't help as to why you can't just put the
axles under the spring, but this is what a complete setup from Dexter looks
like. If you have any questions or want a detailed pic of something, the
trailer is home right now, so I can go take pics tomorrow.
Here's a little background info. The trailer was originally covered by my
dad (he designed and built the whole cover) and designed to fit in a 7'
garage door. Since the conversion, it wouldn't fit and dropping the air out
of the tires didn't work. That's why you see these small wheels on here-
they're just for storage. In order to (safely) take the trailer on the road,
the wheels and tires must be changed out with stock size 15x7 rims and
ST205/75/R15C Goodyear Marathon's.
Here's the trailer just after it came out of the garage:
Close up of small wheel:
Extended Equalizer and spring bolts with grease zerks (added at time of
conversion, along with new bushings)
Here's some close up's:
Here's some farther away shots showing the height difference. As you can
see, the casters on the back were very important at the stock height. Now,
they rarely hit, if ever.
I thought about putting a tape measure from the ground to the frame to show
the difference, but I thought about that after I had the wheels installed
and jack put away. I wasn't about to pull it off just for a pic.
For those of you who noticed, I did hook up the chains before hitting the
road.
Also, sorry for it being so dirty. That's why I brought it home, was to wash
it
. It sat outside while one of the cars had to be worked on, so that's how it
was dirty.
Another thing, for those of you following, this was the first time I towed a
trailer with electric brakes with my Ex. Towed great and brake controller
worked great, though I'll admit the trailer was empty!
Jon
