Trailer questions
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Fleet Mechanic
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From: Marseilles IL
I picked the Big Tex because of it's better looking construction. The main beams under the trailer and the gooseneck beams are all 12" I beams. The other trailers I looked at most had 8" I beams and some were 10" C channel. The Big Tex brand seems to be a verry well built trailer compaired to everything else I looked at. My new to me trailer is a 2004, I couldn't get all the lights done Monday because of the cold but it seems that the connections on the marker lights I replaced all had soldered connections with shrink wrap. Mabe my trailer is old enough to not use the blue splice connectors. My trailer was also made before they started using twin jacks on the front, mine has the single jack and it would have been nice to have the two jacks instead of one but for the quality and the price of this trailer I couldn't pass it up.
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From: Gary,Indiana
I am surprised you got as much as you have done with all this white stuff everywhere. Here in NW Indiana we have been getting lake effeect on top of it all. I only live about 2.5 miles south of Lake Michigan. Now I see you have done your homework before buying a trailer and like you said some trailers have very poor designs but the Big Tex is a brute !! Go figure Tex everything in Texas is bigger and in most cases overkill. If there is such a thing as overkill. I like overkill !!
Now you might just want to stay with LT tires on it. I have heard alot of guys having better luck with LT's over ST tires.
Now you might just want to stay with LT tires on it. I have heard alot of guys having better luck with LT's over ST tires.
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From: Marseilles IL
I am surprised you got as much as you have done with all this white stuff everywhere. Here in NW Indiana we have been getting lake effeect on top of it all. I only live about 2.5 miles south of Lake Michigan. Now I see you have done your homework before buying a trailer and like you said some trailers have very poor designs but the Big Tex is a brute !! Go figure Tex everything in Texas is bigger and in most cases overkill. If there is such a thing as overkill. I like overkill !!
Now you might just want to stay with LT tires on it. I have heard alot of guys having better luck with LT's over ST tires.
Now you might just want to stay with LT tires on it. I have heard alot of guys having better luck with LT's over ST tires.
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