Trailer suspension fiasco
 

I was checking the bearings, putting new grease in with new seals when I got to the second side and found the equalizer was broken. It looks like it has been broken for awhile but a trip down a dirt road finished it off. I can't seem to find a 6 1/2" eye to eye equalizer and the piece looks like it was made for the trailer. Would this be common on a boat trailer as they can be custom? I am planning on replacing them with solid 1 3/4" square and just drilling the holes. Any other ideas?

Easternmarine.com they have a ton of them. 10 to 40 bucks. That square tubing drilled right thru the middle was crying to be broken since it was new.

Upon closer inspection it likes the other side is going too. What is weird is the center pivot hole is not in the same spot on each side? I am just going to make my own out of solid stock.

Don't put hole thru the middle. Wiped out all of its structural strength. Put it underneath the equalizer.

link: Double Eye Trailer Leaf Springs at Trailer Parts Superstore

I don't think length has to be exact. The shackles either side can lean in or out a bit. Anything from 6 to 7 inch should work. I'll post a link to a couple of possibilities in a few.

The other side is wiped out too. I really don't want to mess with changing the suspension geometry. Why wouldn't a solid piece of 1 3/4" work and be stronger? They did sleeve it but not a well made part or design for the weight of the boat.

Be cause when you drill a 9/16 hole through it, it is now half of 1-7/8 minus half of the 9/16 hole. 2 pieces. 1 above and 1 below the hole. You weld a sleeve to the bottom of the 1-7/8 piece, you have raised the equalizer 1 inch. Might raise the trailer a half inch. Your idea would probably work, since it looks like more damage was the sleeve ripping thru the side of the tubing, as much as the equalizer breaking. But I tend to err on the side of overbuilding.

Those equalizers were thrown together in the shop where that trailer was manufactured. Looks like they took about 10 minutes each. And I betcha they didn't harden them after softening them welding in those sleeves. Also, you put pivot on bottom or top of EQ, you could get 1 inch longer or shorter shackles and geometry would stay the same.

The center bolt should have had a grease fitting if the correct bolt was in there