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Originally Posted by KrazyRay
I have built hundreds of these trailers. I personally use a 3/4 ton with coil springs with a hydraulic dumping bed. I have hauled 5000lbs of gravel in it. With a coil spring trailer, you need to have good shocks or it will sway all over the road. For best performance, cut your axle shafts off and bolt the end plates back on. Next, remove your dana 60 3rd member and weld a plate to cover the opening. Add gear oil to keep your hubs lubed. You now have a full floating straight axle. With an eaton axle, you can simply buy an additional pumkin cover and use that to cover the opening instead of having to weld a plate. You can also sell the eaton 3rd member for $100- $150 which will cover all costs to construct the trailer.
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What holds the axle ends if you cut part of them? Why not just remove? Also if the axles are not turning the gears why bother removing the pinion gear shaft? Good to know on the Eaton cover. If you have an extra I'd be interested. I plan on building a second trailer from an Eaton coil springC20.
Got the wiring hooked up. Sure is easy to use the original lights and they are nice! Now if I could incoorporate the backup lights that would be awesome.
Also tempted to hook up a hand parking brake on the tongue and use the parking brake feature too. I know some will say don't bother but why not if they are in good shape and stay that way since I won't use this in the winter and salt them up.