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You'll have to excuse my uneducated axle-speak, but there's a point where the shaft of the axle is welded the wheel hub assembly. That weld cracked halfway causing a bend in between the wheel hub assembly and axle, making it pretty much unable to support a load. This manifests itself in a tire that rubs all over in the wheel well, wrecking a new meat in just a few minutes.
The springs appear to be fine.
The trailer is 7 years old, I believe. So everything is still in decent shape.
The trailer does have brakes, but they are surge brakes. Each axle is rated at 5,000#, but I'd like to beef them up a bit, maybe to 6 or 7,000 each.
I think a pre-assembled option sounds best - less for me to goof up. I'll check into Dexter - any other brands stand out as good ones?
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