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I have 2 Unused spares (Still have faint lines on them with the rubber whiskers, never mounted on an axle) on 2006 Rubicon wheels with stock Rubicon tires (245/75R16 Goodyear MT/R) that I was going to build an Expo trailer with. Now plans changed with the Jeep and the tires and wheels are going...

Odd trailer suspension; twin I-beam-ish:

No problem. I just wanted a direct answer and it was just frustrating when I don't know what the "issue" is, and everyone is pointing out what is wrong with what I am trying to use to get the point accross instead of use to to try and figuer out what it is that IS the problem. its not like I...

As far as "ugly" driving bearing design, I never said that it did. I sad that it drove wheel design. If cars went to sealed bearings and thick wheels, then that is probably why trucks soon followed since big hubs sticking out of wheels went with the old deep dish wheels. I didn't know about...

That could work too. As for the stub idea, I wouldn't do that. It sounds like you just designed, even one with an extremely small side, a square, which is to be avoided. Using square stock and a band saw avoids the whole issue.

The little center cap about 2 1/2" in diameter in the very center that covers the castle nut that holds everything else on. Most aluminum wheels have the caps on them, and it contains a logo of some sort. Kids in my area had taken to leaving the center caps off their wheels and painting that...

UGH! Its not about duplicating independent suspension, is about eliminating the negatives of torsion axles and leaves, which is slightly overloading your trailer for week long treks, or having a trailer that has very little suspension the rest of the time if you plan for the maximum load. As...

The articulation is by product of the soft spring rate and the leverage from the other axle. When the trailer is free to rotate about the hitch, it isn't going to articulate, much less need to. Because of this, there isn't going to be 4 foot links, and 14" shocks. I am thinking more along the...

Well, I do think that it would be significently easier to build a linked suspension vs the independent. I do want to differentiate between "easy" and "ammount of work" though; they mean different things to me. I think you are 100% correct. However, after reading the independent suspension...

Has anyone ever put any thought into a 3 or 4 link airbag suspension? Leafs or torsion axles don't accomidate the variable weight I anticipate very well.

I live/do most of my camping in Wisconsin. The Raccons are worse ever year. I also really fear sleeping over my food supply.. waking up to 5 sets of stinky paws scrabbeling around on the tent wouldn't be nice. I blame Illinoians for the constant increase (of course its most everyone, but when...

Do you need a hub cap? If you maintain your trailer, there shouldn't really be a need for it if your wheels have center caps. Everytime I have taken the wheels off a car/truck its really clean behind there. What am I missing? Water proofing? Where the grease is going to end up?

Huh. Yea, those both have them. Mine doesn't. Willys

The later TJ SE didn't have the 9 slot wheels, they have 6 ovalized triangles. The Willys ed has the same "triangle" wheels that are just green. ebay

If the rear tires are not slipping, then what the front is doing doesn't make any difference. What ever the front tires are doing, they are a coupled and will react together because they are in a ridged structure with the frame, causing no independent movement between the frame and rear axle...

What am I missing? For the trailer wheels to follow in the tracks of the rear wheels: you have to have the distance from the center of the ball (or prefered couple rotation) the same, to the rear axle of your tow vehicle as the distance from the ball to the trailor axle. Throw a plumb on your...

... with 60's...

A Dexter electro/hydraulic actuator. Nothing in a trailer is very sofisticated, and it would be easy to "rig up" your own system. However, traveling down the highway puts other at risk. A failure of your own bodged system will gaurentees liability even with the best defence if it comes down...

Thats where you would be wrong. You are a magazine. You don't get an opinion outside of your own forum, which is your magazine, not a internet forum. Being a media publication dependent on advertising dollars, anything you have to say is inherently biased, and as such, many internt forums...

OHHHHHH!!! So is that when you determined AEV to be of inferior quality? Or don't they advertise anymore in your magazine?