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What's the general consensus on tongue preference between strait tongue vs. A-frame design for off-road use? I have a trailer build thread started here: http://www.expeditionportal.com/forum/showthread.php?t=30224 I am picking up some steel here in a few minutes and will begin work on...

Sorry to see this up for sale. I enjoy trailer projects and your build was one that I watched in detail. You did an excellent job, I thoroughly enjoyed watching it's progress to completion. A lot of work and detail put into this. Glad you at least got to enjoy a few trips with it. Good luck...

That's a good idea. I hadn't thought about that. I'd have to check clearance from the mounting ring to the end of the spindle where the zerk is recessed at (it does protrude a hair-hence the bubble in the rubber plug), but those style caps are rounded and should provide more clearance under...

Looks like you're making good progress so far. I may have missed it, but what bedliner coating did you use and how is it holding up? I coated my 5x10 little guy that I pull behind my Jeep some 15 years ago now and it's held up so well that I ended up doing my medium sized 14K tandem and will...

Hey guys, I would have loved to buy some low-profile caps. That was my first thought and I tried to do so, but unfortunately it wouldn't work. At first glance, it appears there'd be plenty of room, but these caps fit so tight onto the spindle, that the little bubble in the rubber plug is...

Dust Caps I spent some time with the dust caps to clearance them a bit. I mentioned "massaging" them a bit earlier-perhaps I should rephrase that to "modding" the dust caps now... It's not exactly pretty, and was more work than I planned, but they'll be covered by the wheels and I think it...

In the post above, I mentioned an issue with the dust caps sticking out too far and making contact with the center caps and preventing the wheel from bolting on. The dust cap on the axle is also too large a diameter to fit through the center cap hole in the rim so that leaves me with either...

Spacers I wanted to run matching tires/wheels on the trailer so that I could only carry one spare between the Jeep and trailer both and swap between either rig in an emergency if need be. With a good tire repair kit, one spare is all that is really needed anyway, so no need carrying two. It's a...

Lights As far as lighting goes, I really had a tough decision with lights for this trailer. I am CONSTANTLY replacing lights on our other trailers for various reasons. We are always breaking taillights somehow, someway whether it be a tree falling on them, cattle chewing on them and ripping...

This will be a long, drawn out process, but I'll attempt a trailer build thread for my current project. I'm doing the build thread on a couple Jeep boards as well so some of this is geared at making it work with a Jeep. We have a number of other trailers at home and up at the ranch for various...

Thanks-you're exactly right on the part. Maybe I wasn't clear enough. Sorry about that. I had a chance to do some test-fitting today and I'm afraid it isn't going to work. That cap is about as close as it's going to get, so I don't think even if they make a smaller one, that it would fit...

Do they make different size dust caps for the EZ Lube bearings, and if so, where to get them? Possibly shorter ones, or low-profile of some sort? It's for a standard Dexter 3500# axle with electric brakes. Also, I haven't put this together yet-how much room do I actually need under the dust...

Hello! I've been planning a small multi-purpose off-road trailer build for a while now and thought I knew exactly what I wanted, up until being directed to this wonderful site you have here. After searching for a few weeks and reading up on the amazing builds many of you folks have done, I'm...