LOVE this build... very nice work indeed. My trailer is number 345 built in the same plant as yours. Many of these spent a lot of time overseas, but some were built then stored until they were sold. Mine was obviously used pretty extensively!! I would say however that my suspension is in far better shape than yours was. My bushings still look very serviceable, but the shocks were shot. The leaf packs need a rebuild as yours got, for now I simply did a clean and grind and POR15'ed them until next year. I missed out on a set of NOS M101 CDN2 leafs recently, bummed I didn't jump on those.
The wheel and tire combo looks excellent on there, very nice indeed. What is the backspacing on those, 4.25" ish? I need to mount some gas struts on my lid, which BTW looks very similar but is wood as opposed to steel. Can you send or post the measurements for where you attached the ends of the struts to the lid and the tub for me? I am hoping to get mine done in the next few weeks, and this would be very helpful.
250# struts eh?
:drool:
Thanks!
Greg