Axle and spring removal

[pigbike]

I need to do some cleaning and repainting on my axles and springs on my dual Continetal trailer. I was thinking of jacking up the trailer frame with the boat on it a few inches, and then taking off the u bolts that hold the axle sliders to the frame. I would then like to roll the entire assembly out from under the frame.

Is this possible to do??? It looks like four u bolts on each side attach the entire slider,springs, axles and wheels to the frame. I am hoping to just roll out the whole thing, do my cleanup, and roll it back under the boat and trailer frame.

Has anyone done this?

[Blue Agave]

After jacking the trailer up, why not just remove the tires then remove the springs and axles?

[wingtime]

If you do that you have to replace the u-bolts since you are only supposed to tighten them down once.

[John Jones]

and unless you are lucky, they will have to be cut off.

[seabob4]

and unless you are lucky, they will have to be cut off.

       

[pigbike]

I think I may have to replace the slider frame that the springs mount to. They seen to have some heavy flaking rust. As far as the u bolts they look pretty good as well as the nuts. I can reuse them. Might put some blue thread locker(can't think of the right name at the moment) on them.

I have light rust on the axles and thought maybe I could just roll out the whole mess and that care of them and spray the springs which look good but starting to rust. I didn't really want to disassemble the springs and axles.

This trailer has had some work done to it before I bought it. I think the sliders now need replacing.

[pigbike]

Well I finished up this rebuild job. The whole rolling assembly rolled right out from under the trailer. Did the work and rolled it back under again. Piece of cake.