Torsion axles are great, just dont put LT tires on them, up grade to 14 ply tires and its night and day. soft sidewalls also put undo tension or the torsion axles while turning in a tight spot.

Only problem is if you toast a bearing and it damages the spindle, you end up replacing the whole axle, around $800-900 plus the lead time to replace the axle, disassemble and reassemble. The spindles are welded in, and they will not let you just replace a spindle assembly because of the rubber inside the torsion tube.

I would actually like to get away from mine and into a leaf sprung axle setup.

I have a Pacific step bottom trailer, I bought two of their spindle / hub kits for my spares and are replaceable
https://www.pacifictrailers.com/

I've had both leaf spring and torsion style trailers. I was forced to replace the axle on my leaf spring trailer once when I destroyed the bearings/hubs/axle. I like the torsion, it works. I never really noticed an abundance of bounce with my leaf spring trailer. Really didn't notice the difference. Only real difference I notice on these trailers is flat bunks vs. tall bunks. The tall bunks allow the axles to be shorter and the wheels to tuck up under the boat. Nice to not have as wide of a trailer, but the wider trailers tow nicer and the flat bunks load better. It's a PITA to load on the narrow I-beam tall bunk trailers like South Florida (which I've had two of).


If you look close at the pic I posted of the bearing / wheel gone it looks like the nut is straight up rusted onto the spline and it looks like the spline is damaged from corrosion. I was prepared to replace the whole axle but luckily, when it was all taken apart and cleaned it was in very good shape. I lucked out.

That's some cheap piece of mind right there. Had the valve stems on our Top Gun trailer rot out from storing out doors. Those would resolve that. I found a set of 7 Alcoa aluminum trailer wheels for $700 on CL. I want to swoop them up and get rid of those cheesy chrome / rusted wheels.

Thanks Jon....See you in Key West??

I like these silver and grey kind of match the boat, and pretty inexpensive.

https://www.ebay.com/itm/2-Pack-Trai...5/143320922233

I do like those. Wonder how they'd look on.