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Here's my little home-built trailer on a Harbor Freight type 4' trailer. Here's a write-up on the build: http://www.jeepforum.com/forum/f27/mini-harbor-freight-type-trailer-ultimate-build-up-thread-1180456/

I put some Rancho 2.5" springs on my 2A years ago and they gave it plenty of room for 31" tires. I believe your transmission is a T-90A with a 2.73 first gear ratio. If you swap out the gear cluster and main drive gear for gears from a T-90C tranny it will lower your first gear to 3.33. It...

Yes; 59" wide for your trailer frame is very wide. Extremely wide. Check out this post and the next one: http://www.jeepforum.com/forum/f27/mini-harbor-freight-type-trailer-ultimate-build-up-thread-1180456/index29.html#post14977300 It'll help you determine your needed axle width (Hub...

Hooah. Now I'm at Ft Hood, Texas (your post reminded me I needed to update my profile). While at Ft Campbell I was section chief of the inpatient wards (to include L&D and the mother/baby unit). You'll need both your trailer's tub width and the tires/wheels you're planning on running to...

You're welcome. A lot of folks have had input into that thread. Pay particular attention to the link from jscherb on modifying a HF HD (not the folding one) 4x8' trailer for a more trail-friendly size.

You're welcome. It's too bad they don't sell these Dixon-Bates hitches over here in the states (of if they do at a land rover dealer they want crazy hundreds of dollars). I think they're a bit over $200 (in US dollars) before shipping from Europe (the shipping cost is why I don't currently...

Depending on the particular ball mount/coupler thingy you have, you might get slightly different numbers. When I'm using the trailer with the Jeep anywhere I use the pintle hitch/lunette ring. When another of my vehicles is using the trailer (like my minivan) I use the ball hitch (mainly...

I'm running a lunette ring and pintle hitch on my Jeep and trailer. One day just for fun, I went out with my Harbor Freight magnetic angle finder thingy I went and got some measurements. With the lunette ring and pintle hitch: Side-to-side flexibility (twist): 28-30 degrees Up-and-down...

Here is my nugget of wisdom in regards to fabrication tips, design nuances, and amenity implementation. Before you start buying square tubing and such, read this: http://www.jeepforum.com/forum/f27/mini-harbor-freight-type-trailer-ultimate-build-up-thread-1180456/ It is very long, and there...

Or if you've got a trailer with a 2" receiver up front, you can put slide-in lunette ring in place (fixed; non-rotating ring), and get a rotating Pintle Hitch for your tow vehicle. If you notice in the picture, there's a pin there so the pintle is either fixed in place, or pull the pin and let...

I would also add some front to rear bracing between the cross members. You can simply use some angle iron welded underneath. My tub's aluminum, so I used aluminum angle.

I did something very similar. I attached a Jeep TJ spare tire carrier to the back of my trailer, and extended the rear 2" receiver enough so the tire rested on the receiver hitch. With a cooler on a tray in front of the tub along with a Kolpin 4 gallon fuel cell attached to the front side of...

Read this post and the next post (426 and 427). It should answer your question. You'll need a straight edge and a ruler to calculate it (H2H). http://www.jeepforum.com/forum/f27/mini-harbor-freight-type-trailer-ultimate-build-up-thread-1180456/index29.html#post14977300

That's a real Jeep. Too much diamond plate?

Underneath the tongue on the trailer, between the front opening and the hitch pin, drill a hole, weld a nut, and run a bolt UP to snug it. It wants to pivot that way anyways, so now you're just pinning it into place. If you want to put a bolt from the top (on the trailer's receiver hitch), put...

That's a lot of math; I thought maybe you'd just go outside with a tape measure and get a quick measurement. To answer your question (my opinion) if you were planning on living in your trailer (like making a teardrop trailer) then no; it would not be worth narrowing. If you were going to use...

Ok; your trailer frame is 48" wide. Figure at least two inches of clearance will be needed between the inside of the tire (if you're going like a 31" tire or bigger) and the trailer frame, so 48" + 2" + 2" = 52" between the inside side of one tire to the inside side of the other tire if you...

This thread might help you some: http://www.jeepforum.com/forum/f27/mini-harbor-freight-type-trailer-ultimate-build-up-thread-1180456/ It is long, but there's a table on contents on the first post that breaks it down. A couple other suggestions: 1. Consider swapping out the factory short...

Picture the springs mounted in the conventional manner (fixed point up front, pivot shackle in the back). When you're moving forward and you hit a bump, the spring compresses and as the shackle moves rearward the axle actually moves slightly towards the rear. It is a smooth motion as the...

Why are the spring pivot shackles on the front and not on the rear? Was that an error, or was that intentional? Seems like it would ride rougher being reversed as they are.