This old Trailer Project thread

I have started back on fixing one of the biggest mistakes in my life, which would be the pos car trailer I bought 3 years ago.





I got this crap car trailer for a song, but it came with some serious design flaws. My intention was to buy it, put suspension on it, and brakes on it. I then found out that it had mobile home axles, and they don't make good brakes for mobile home axles. I then went out and bought a 7000lb axle kit, which wasn't terribly expensive to rectify the problem. Then my Mustang engine quit, and I spent so much money getting that back up and running, the trailer project went on the back burner for lack of funds to buy new wheels and tires for it. I was recently able to trade this old wrecked crap diesel Mercedes my dad left me when he moved back to Norway for some trailer tires and a few other things, so now I can start working on it again.



Yesterday, I got the axle frame pretty much done, and in rolling condition. I test fitted it all, and the next step is to take it all back apart and finish welding it.











I was actually surprised how fast I got this together considering I did it all with an angle grinder and a wire feed welder. To keep the cost down, I'm using almost all scrap steel that I find at the salvage yard. The next step is to start cutting all the crap out of the old trailer that I'm not using. The whole thing is pretty much crap design wise, but for what I paid for I got my money's worth in just materials. I seriously doubt I could do any better if I had bought raw steel and welded it all together myself. I would kill to have a plasma cutter right now, but I'm going to have to make do with an angle grinder.

Kurt