Pictures below are from Friday. 2/9/18
This is my friends trailer, 2 place Triton Elite, guessing they had it since 2003/04, so... probably +/- 15yrs old.
For those here in WNY, we were going down to Allegany State Park for the day.
I was driving separate and at the time, i was in front of them by about 15 minutes.
They got down to south of Ellicottville, and from this roller coaster of a winter, the roads are junk..!! South of e-ville.. they were terrible..!
Pot hole after pot hole.
I was in Saliminca already just before the Park, phone rings.... "We got trailer problems"
I turn around and head back, they pulled off into the Ellicottville central school - school bus lot .
The axle pushed up into the rectangular tubing, the tire rubbing on the under side of the deck.
I carry a small bottle jack, we were able to push the axle back out.
My buddy went to Tractor Supply, and got a metal plate ( you can see it in the one pic. ) we had to cut it down ( i had a hack saw in my tool box ) then hammer it in between the alum frame and the axle support.
Ratchet strapped it together for good measure.
After about an hour / hr & 1/2 , we were good to go.
I only had my sled in my trailer, so we put Stan's sled in mine and loaded Pete's on the good side/left side of theirs.
Never made it to the Park...
I haven't been riding there in about 8-10 yrs, and was looking forward to it.
Just didn't want to chance going any further away from home, (about 1 1/2 ride home,) and didn't know how the trailer would be getting it home and if we'd have any more issues.
So.... we lost a good day of riding.
See the other pic.
This is what my buddy did to fix his trailer.
Got aluminum box, bigger then the box on the trailer, cut the one side off, slipped it over the original, clamped it in place.
He said when he took the axle off, the other side was all honey-combed too.
He did both sides as shown.
Check your trailers...!!!
Look them over real good, Every season..!!!
Don't chance it... !
This is my friends trailer, 2 place Triton Elite, guessing they had it since 2003/04, so... probably +/- 15yrs old.
For those here in WNY, we were going down to Allegany State Park for the day.
I was driving separate and at the time, i was in front of them by about 15 minutes.
They got down to south of Ellicottville, and from this roller coaster of a winter, the roads are junk..!! South of e-ville.. they were terrible..!
Pot hole after pot hole.
I was in Saliminca already just before the Park, phone rings.... "We got trailer problems"
I turn around and head back, they pulled off into the Ellicottville central school - school bus lot .
The axle pushed up into the rectangular tubing, the tire rubbing on the under side of the deck.
I carry a small bottle jack, we were able to push the axle back out.
My buddy went to Tractor Supply, and got a metal plate ( you can see it in the one pic. ) we had to cut it down ( i had a hack saw in my tool box ) then hammer it in between the alum frame and the axle support.
Ratchet strapped it together for good measure.
After about an hour / hr & 1/2 , we were good to go.
I only had my sled in my trailer, so we put Stan's sled in mine and loaded Pete's on the good side/left side of theirs.
Never made it to the Park...
I haven't been riding there in about 8-10 yrs, and was looking forward to it.
Just didn't want to chance going any further away from home, (about 1 1/2 ride home,) and didn't know how the trailer would be getting it home and if we'd have any more issues.
So.... we lost a good day of riding.
See the other pic.
This is what my buddy did to fix his trailer.
Got aluminum box, bigger then the box on the trailer, cut the one side off, slipped it over the original, clamped it in place.
He said when he took the axle off, the other side was all honey-combed too.
He did both sides as shown.
Check your trailers...!!!
Look them over real good, Every season..!!!
Don't chance it... !