ToyRyd04
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ToyRyd04’s M416 Trailer Build
After months of reading and learning, then searching, I finally stumbled on one for sale at Ebay. Only problem was…it was in Ohio, a few states away.
So the journey began as I brought my friend Kyle with me since I would need a hand loading and he had a trailer to haul the M416 in.
On our way back from the weekend road trip in the December snow.
Once I got the M416 back home and power washed most of the road salt and dirt off.
After looking over everything I figured it would just be easier and cheaper to rent a sandblaster and take the M416 down to bare metal. This took no time at all, I rented the compressor for 2 hours and bought (8) 100LB bags of black beauty sand blasting material.
Living in Maryland has a big downfall…..Rust, so a special zinc primer was sprayed to coat and prevent everything from rusting from now on.
A few weeks went by just having the trailer sit as it was. All the while I was deciding where to go from there and what was next to save up for and buy.
Next thing was the wheels to match the tow vehicle.
After weighing the options for either keeping the axle and getting hub spaces/adapters or ditching it and going with a custom built Dexter axle, I placed an order.
After 3 weeks it was dropped off and ready to replace the old factory axle.
The new axle specs:
Hub to hub – 57.0”
Spring Center – 39.25”
Capacity – 3500 lbs
Bolt pattern 6 on 5 ½ (Toyota)
Electric Brakes – 10 x 2 ¼
Manual Parking Brake – Integrated
Maintenance – E-Z Lube
Mounting – Spring over axle
Once the axle came in, that got the ball rolling again on the M416.
Out with the old axle and in with the new Dexter spring over.
Mounted the wheels with the old 33” MTZ rollers for now and started on the back panel replacement.
After months of reading and learning, then searching, I finally stumbled on one for sale at Ebay. Only problem was…it was in Ohio, a few states away.
So the journey began as I brought my friend Kyle with me since I would need a hand loading and he had a trailer to haul the M416 in.
On our way back from the weekend road trip in the December snow.
Once I got the M416 back home and power washed most of the road salt and dirt off.
After looking over everything I figured it would just be easier and cheaper to rent a sandblaster and take the M416 down to bare metal. This took no time at all, I rented the compressor for 2 hours and bought (8) 100LB bags of black beauty sand blasting material.
Living in Maryland has a big downfall…..Rust, so a special zinc primer was sprayed to coat and prevent everything from rusting from now on.
A few weeks went by just having the trailer sit as it was. All the while I was deciding where to go from there and what was next to save up for and buy.
Next thing was the wheels to match the tow vehicle.
After weighing the options for either keeping the axle and getting hub spaces/adapters or ditching it and going with a custom built Dexter axle, I placed an order.
After 3 weeks it was dropped off and ready to replace the old factory axle.
The new axle specs:
Hub to hub – 57.0”
Spring Center – 39.25”
Capacity – 3500 lbs
Bolt pattern 6 on 5 ½ (Toyota)
Electric Brakes – 10 x 2 ¼
Manual Parking Brake – Integrated
Maintenance – E-Z Lube
Mounting – Spring over axle
Once the axle came in, that got the ball rolling again on the M416.
Out with the old axle and in with the new Dexter spring over.
Mounted the wheels with the old 33” MTZ rollers for now and started on the back panel replacement.
