Great News Jim!

Don't forget to use new U-Bolts and plates. Cheap insurance for peace of mind. If your springs are really rusted, you may want to do those as well while you have it all apart.

Good Luck!

-Larry

AXLE CRACKS
 

I HAD THE SAME PROBLEM ON MY EAGLE TRAILER. PLEASE TELL ME WHERE YOU PURCHASED AXLES THANKS TOM 610 935 8810

Tom,

I picked it up locally from "Fleet Pride", (402) 331-5515. Mine is a triple axle and the part number from Fleet Pride is KD3587-A. Comes without the leaf spring pads. The part number for those is 90302. $87.58 with tax and everything.
Hope this helps. if you need to call me- (402) 706-4141.

Jim

THANKS FOR YOUR HELP. I MAY GIVE YOU A CALL. TOM

you're lucky you caught it early! We drove down from Chi to LOTO one year. After pulling out of the Amaco station in town i looked in the side mirror and saw a tire rolling in the middle of the street!! At that very same time a guy pulls up along side of us and says you just lost a tire!!! :eek: All in one swoop i lost the tire/brakes/backing plate and it severed the brake line so now the trailer had no brakes!!! Went to a local welder who thought he could just weld the backing plate back on the tube! first time putting the trailer back on the ground it bent like a car with busted ball joints! we ripped the tire off and went to the hardware store and chained that axle side up and out of the way. It was a long ride back home needless to say and about 60miles from home we blew a tire on that side that was carrying the extra load!! My advice to anyone thinking of trying to fix and axle is DONT THINK ABOUT IT! Its cheaper in the long run to just replace it!!

Been through this on a couple of trailers. Turns out most trailer manufacturers get their axles from just a few sources, and as you found out, they were actually very cheap. There's a northern hydraulics distributor down the street from me that was able to get complete axles for almost any trailer. The price new, with brakes, was comparable to rebuilding costs.
Gary