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Aug 13, 2004 | 01:28 PM

chrono4

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I have a friend who owns a trailer park. well hes trying to clean it up by getting rid of all of the abandonded trailers. well hes stripping then all the way to the frame and just cutting the frames up. well im getting one of the frames with the axels and all but i was wondering what kind of axls are in it. like are they solid or what? i figure when i get it ill repack all the bearings in it. what i plan on doing to it is moving the axells up and closer to the hitch and making a flatbed trailer out of it. any help will be greatly appreciiated.

thanks , chrono

Aug 13, 2004 | 01:40 PM

superrangerman2002

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They make great trailers, but the real problem is that the tires cost some serious $$$$ per tire, and dont last very long at all.

Aug 13, 2004 | 01:42 PM

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well .... hehe, take all the other tires of all the other trailers

Aug 13, 2004 | 01:47 PM

chrono4

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well is there soming i can do to change the tires to regular car tires and rims easily?

Aug 13, 2004 | 01:58 PM

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Unfortunately you will not be able change out the rims to regular rims with out a kit.

I have heard that there are kits for this, but I dont know any thing about them.

I would imagine that it would require a complete re-hub of the trailer axels, and I would also bet that it would be quite spendy to do per wheel.

You would prolly be better off pulling axels off a old gooseneck horse trailer and refurbishing those, rather than trying to monkey with those trailer house wheel assemblies.

Aug 13, 2004 | 02:06 PM

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is there somthing special about the tires that go on those rims? i can get spare rims but the tires on most of then arent dependable.
thanks, chrono

Aug 13, 2004 | 02:07 PM

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There some of the older trailers that use Ford 5 bolt and GM six bolt rims. They come with leaf springs and electric brakes, so are handy for light trailers, but keep in mind that the trailers weren't built all that heavy, as they don't have that much weight and weren't intended to be moved that much. The trailers with 14.5 rims are a problem, as tires aren't as easy to come by, although better than they used to be.