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SDE

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I picked up a damaged single position snowmobile trailer. The axle is bent. One wheel is not perpendicular to the road. I want to cut the hubs off the axle and weld in a piece of pipe. What type of material must I use?
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SDE
 
The axles tubes are just mild steel. Nothing special as far as an alloy. I have replaced many of them. Just make sure and get the hubs square with each other. If it is a round tube axle they usually have a little bit of positive arch to the axle.
 
An axle for your trailer is probably pretty cheap. Do you have torsion or leaf spring suspension? What is the weight of your trailer. I had a bent axle I paid around $100-150 for a 2500 lb axle for my 12 ft trailer. If your welding the spindle on you need to make sure alignment is right or you'll be wearing out you tires. Check out the link below for some info.
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I work at dexter axle in Albion. I have seen some stuff like you are talking about done.I do some service work and go out and repair them. Just buy a axle beam ( just an axle no hubs) then put your hubs and bearings on it. Way to big of a liability to do what your saying. A axle beam is only a hundred bucks or less. If you want I can get the number from the order enter girls for ya.
 
I put them on my homemade frame machine and bend them right back. A framing square, a tape measure and a ball of string and they are good as new. Have done dozens of them, especially on overloaded cattle trailers.
 
My BIL and I straightened one once with a railroad tie and a hydraulic jack. Under the trailer house! I have straightened small ones with a hydraulic press, and used roller stands and a dial indicator to get it very good.
 
Might want to price a factory axle before investing too much time and material.

The tube is not pipe, but structural tubing. Big difference!

Getting the spindles straight is critical. Very difficult to do without the proper equipment or a lot of tacking and adjusting.
 
I would straighten it but your decision to straighten or buy new would depend on what resources you have to work with. I bummed a ~7 ft piece of I beam off a neighbor when he was building a new shop that has came in handy several times.

Here it is straightening the roller on a John Deere flail mower I bought for a good price at auction. The string on top is my straightness indicator.

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Used basically the same configuration to straighten the 3500# axles on a trailer I drug out of the weeds and rebuilt into a usable trailer. This is the Before photo.

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Only after photo I could find.
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I am not sure that this trailer will ever be used on the road again. My B-I-L wanted a trailer for use with his Polaris 4 wheeler, and I might give it to him. I like it better than my little yard trailer, but at least I can haul deer out of woods with the yard trailer
I have a heavy frame that a turning machine was shipped in. I will attempt to straighten the axle first, using that frame.
Farm and fleet had a similar trailer with wood sides, on sale for $600. I will not being spending much on the repairs.
TY
SDE
 
If it isn't bent too badly, and won't ever be used on the road again, it ain't gonna hurt it for slow speed off road use.
I have a small 4x5 trailer I pull behind my 4 wheeler that has a slight bend in the axle.

Noah W
 
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