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Bad roads = broken trailer spring

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OnDaRoad

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Maybe it is cheap steel but I think the road
conditions are the culprit to blame ....

Broken double eye leaf spring on a 2 year old trailer

Curb side - at the rear hanger

The roads in this country get worse every day
 
I would think it should last longer than 2 years . We are getting steel imported everyday that is junk. I work with a lot of steel and it has pits inside from when it was pored. Company"s trying to buy cheep to save a buck. Good Luck
 

How heavy are you loading? I used to break leaves at least once in every truck that I had until I stated buying bigger trucks.
 
Are the axles above or below the springs? Axles below the spring cause far more broken springs than with the axles above. Also are you pulling the trailer level? If the tongue is up that would put more stress on the rear axle. If none of that is happening then you probly just hit something. Of course it does happen that you get a bad spring too.
 
Trailer is 2012 model

Not overloaded or loaded unevenly

Dexter 7k axles

Rear leaf spring broke right at the eye
Spring eye is still in hanger
 
I broke a trailer spring on the PA pike Probly 15 years ago when the trailer was a couple years old. I only had about 45 hundred pounds on it but the pike was really rough. Then I broke another in southern Oklahoma when I loaded a Case 800 on the trailer. Same side but it most likely was broke bouncing empty on the Arkansas roads on the way down.
 
Only good thing it is repairable and should not be too expensive.
Now if a torsion axle gets goofed up you have to buy a whole new one !
 
Over the years I have had more broken spring on empty trailers and trucks then when you load them down. My spring guy also says the same thing.

Bob
 
(quoted from post at 17:01:25 01/02/14) Over the years I have had more broken spring on empty trailers and trucks then when you load them down. My spring guy also says the same thing.

Bob
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How do you do that? I can't think of any way to know exactly when they break, whether when loaded or unloaded. Are there alarms for them that I have not heard of? I have never heard one break, I just notice when under it or at state inspection time.
 
I go along with breaking springs when empty. Trailers do a lot of bouncing when empty.Every time I got a broken spring on a semi trailer and it was empty. One time I locked up brake when old lady pulled out in front of me and the trailer bounced so hard that it broke the front ears off springs on both axles of a tandem axle trailer.
 
Yes I have found out that you will break more , a lot more springs empty than you will loaded at least that"s what I have found , and I am almost always over loaded
 
Well I replaced all (4) leaf springs,
all the u-bolts - shackle straps - equalizers.

Not taking any chances
 
(quoted from post at 20:23:29 01/03/14) hay showcrop that's where your PRE inspection comes in
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OK Billpa but I still don't see how you knew exactly when on the prior trip it broke. Maybe it is my ten loads per day dirt dummy mentality. If we were to pretrip for every load we would not have a job for long.
 
You mean you don't pretrip at least twice a day. We pretriped 3 times a day (morning,noon and at last stop of the day before heading home). Every time we hooked to a differant trailer we did a pretrip and that could be 8 times in one days. Pretrips don't take long once you learn how to do them.
 
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