Well it happened Sunday night on my way home from Rayburn I had the leaf spring break on the rear axle, passenger side of the trailer. Fortunately a guy pulled up beside me and flagged me down before any additional damage. I got lucky, a buddy had a spare for his old trailer so it will go on tonight or tomorrow night.
A question for you guys. If I replace one, should I replace all 4 on a five year old trailer?
And now for comments and maybe a mini-rant!!
I am going to cut the u-bolts off and buy new ones rather than fight the Gatorhyde. I was under there looking at it and can pick up the hardware at Tractor Supply.
My mini-rant of the day is this. I called Marine Master after reading several people had gotten parts via them. I was told, nope we don't stock any spares, hmmmm. They told me to call UFP for parts, but I would need the axle serial number which is located on the side of the axle. Ummm nope, the guy who installed mine put them on the bottom, and of course they are covered with Gatorhyde. So I get a scraper, roll back under on my creeper, scrape as much as I could off, stick my phone under there and finally got a picture. Into the house I go, call up UFP, ummmm nope we don't handle them for trailers over 2 years old, WTH!!! Call Waymire. Ahhhhhhh deep cleansing breathe. Make a call to Waymire, tell the gentleman what I am looking for and that I have my axle serial number. All good, he does not need it. Another deep cleansing breathe. I get the info, the cost, the hole-to-hole size, number of leaves and the load rating.
As good as Phoenix is with customer service, maybe I expected to much. But you know what, I love my boat that as of this week has been mine for 5 years.
Phly on my Bird Brothers!