Off-Road Trailers

Its a 3500 lb axle with 2500 lb springs.
(I dont ever plan on carrying 2500 lbs in it. Maybe 2499 lbs.)
 
Tongue is on... needs a few more little details to get it legal...

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Curt
 
Xtreme XJ said:
Tongue is on... needs a few more little details to get it legal...

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Curt
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Looks great!

Something I have learned with mine, you need to get as much weight over the tounge as possible. Mine likes to wander around when it is empty or loaded evenly, when it is loaded toward the tounge it pulls great. A tounge box or anything else up there would help out quite a bit.

Your tounge looks to be about the same length as mine. I drove mine around in the snow the other day and it follows the jeep almost perfectly. I have been able to sneak it around some pretty tight turns without having to worry about it.

The lock & roll hitch looks good on it, my pintle/lunette setup is pretty loud when the trailer is empty. I think adding tounge weight would help that out quite a bit as well.

Isn't it amazing how light these trailers seem when they are empty?! I can pull mine around with one hand like it is a little red wagon.
 
Has anyone seen this http://www.jeepbrokers.com/product_reviews_adventure_trailers.htm

I am wanting to do a suspesion setup like this to a trailer. This will be a summer project to take to Escalante in Sept. $1200 is a crazy price for this. What I am wondering though is what do they use for the front of the trailing arm? What kind of joint do they use? What would last and be easy to repair?

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jwtrapper said:
What I am wondering though is what do they use for the front of the trailing arm? What kind of joint do they use? What would last and be easy to repair?
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I don't know what they use but I'd guess that a ordinary Jeep style control arm bushing would be adequate. The joints only need to rotate, there's not any (or much) twist required.
 
squirrel80 said:
Hey Curt. I hope you didn't cut up a perfectly good MJ to build a trailer! That thing looks good. Does this mean you are done playing with trailers and are going to do some wheeling?
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HA ! this is only part of phase I... one of like 27 phases... ask Prep...
Perfectly good... Hmmmm... no I would call it a perfectly clapped out, lived it's life, EVERYTHING badly in need of being rebuilt old truck. I still have the front half of the truck...
I've done a few exploring trips... and the XJ has been broke for a month and on Sun. I discovered I had bearing issues in the rearend and a chipped tooth on the ring gear...so it's coming apart, I ordered the gears/bearings today.
I'm just shooting for TDS... Parker this week then a Plaster City race two weeks later... then one weekend to relax and head out to TDS !!!

See YA !
Curt
 
Prepmech said:
Looks great!

Something I have learned with mine, you need to get as much weight over the tounge as possible. Mine likes to wander around when it is empty or loaded evenly, when it is loaded toward the tounge it pulls great. A tounge box or anything else up there would help out quite a bit.

Your tounge looks to be about the same length as mine. I drove mine around in the snow the other day and it follows the jeep almost perfectly. I have been able to sneak it around some pretty tight turns without having to worry about it.

The lock & roll hitch looks good on it, my pintle/lunette setup is pretty loud when the trailer is empty. I think adding tounge weight would help that out quite a bit as well.

Isn't it amazing how light these trailers seem when they are empty?! I can pull mine around with one hand like it is a little red wagon.
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I agree keep the bias tongue heavy... at first without the tongue it would tilt ass down... now that the tongue is on it's slightly biased towards the tongue... also the front receiver will have a section that slides into it so it will actually be a little longer then it is now... the front drawbar will be adjustable in length to fit the types of towing I'll do... then if NEED be I can remove it and run it to the rear receiver in those rare instances I get bound up... even though we don't have trees out here...
How about an old section of rad. hose(the curved part) zip tied to the lunette & pintle... to help isolate the noise ?

I dig yours as you know, I hope it'll eventually look as nice...

Curt
 
I was given this trailer for free, I'm going to get it up on some jack stand some time soon as see what it has under it, maybe it's ready for trailer Brakes :). I wonder what's involved in getting it up into the air some more ? I've been pulling my atv around with it so far.

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Some more with a little more headway...

The drawbar/tongue...
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Extended...
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The backbone that goes front to rear...
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Where the F & R meet...
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The rear tied into the rear of the frame...
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The receiver exiting the rear...
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Getting close to being towable...

Curt
 
Xtreme XJ said:
The rear tied into the rear of the frame...
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Getting close to being towable...

Curt
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Think of the axle clearence running those bad boys:gee:


Any thoughts of swapping the d35 for a trailer axle to reduce weight/increaSE CLEARENCE?
 
karstic said:
Any thoughts of swapping the d35 for a trailer axle to reduce weight/increaSE CLEARENCE?
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YEP !!! I'll probably go the same route as most others have 3500# 3" axle.

I always thought it would be cool to have a back up axle in a trailer, but weight & with the back bone going allll the way through it's probably wiser to toss the 35

Curt
 
OverlandXJ said:
Looking for an indepth thread when ya get started. :thumbup:

Have a design your working on?
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Probably build something that looks alot like the Horzon Adventure Trailer. I also like the idea of the airbag suspension. Just ideas right now. I had to change so much on the other trailer (Axle, Hitch, shocks) I could not pass up the money offered to me.
 
Try IH8MUD.com. Lot of info on there. They have a trailer section even though they are Landrover guy's. I finnally cut my rust free MJ for a trailer since I could'nt get papers forit and I'm using the 144K 4.0 short block to replace my 300k H.O.
 
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