Trailer Bouncing

[J Routt]

When I come to a stop where the pavement is rippled and my boat is bouncing a little, my trailer brakes will lock up when the trailer is on the up stroke (when the boat is lighter). Then when it comes down the tires chirp and it of course takes the pressure off of the master cylinder and releases then bounces back up and repeats over and over again. I am pulling a 2150 Astro, so there's A LOT of weight bouncing around back there. The tires were spongy, so I just had new tires put on it today thinking the old tires were causing the excessive bounce. NOPE. Same thing happened today.
I'm either thinking my springs need replaced to take the bounce out, or there is something wrong with the shock or whatever is inside my surge brakes.

Anybody else ever had this happen?

[Astro-T]

I'm not even close to being an expert but from what you are describing I would have to say take a close look at the springs. If they are bad they shouldnt be too much of a bear to change

[J Routt]

I was almost hoping that wasn't the case. Leaf springs are easy, but I have torsion springs. I have never delt with those, except on garage doors.

Are they hard to maintenance?

[J Routt]

After searching through the archives I've read that torsion springs have a lot less noise. I can say these are somewhat loud. Are they potentially bad. I would have a hard time thinking they were bad on all four wheels though.

[21XDC]

Fill tires to max inflation and make sure you are pulling level with 5-10% of the total package weight trailer/hull/motor/batts/troller etc for tongue weight. Torsion axles are great.

[Astro-T]

agree with Mike. Thought you had leafs. Sorry! Let us know what ya figure out!

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