Recovery help needed today.

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Ant Anstead of Dirtbikes
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So my enclosed trailer smoked a wheel bearing out Friday night on my way to the Sage Rifers national Enduro in Cherry Creek.
(Just northwest of the sand dunes).
It took out the castle nut and killed the spindle and I had to abandon it at Sage Riders Camp.
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Aaron Hair at Best Deal Springs in Payson is building me a new axle today (hopefully by 3pm) and the plan is to go out and swap the trailer axle this afternoon.


It might help to have a couple people to position the new axle.

If anyone is interested in helping out, it should be a fun quick recovery and I can PM you the GPS coordinates.
 

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Ant Anstead of Dirtbikes
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I've got rear stabilizers on the trailer and floor jack and some jack stands all loaded.
It's spring under,
so the plan is to hitch the trailer,
drop the stabilizers down,
drop the front of the leaves.
I'll likely cut the old ubolts off with a battery powered angle grinder
and then zap the new ones on with an impact and get out of there.

But if anyone has any good ideas I'm up for suggestions.
 

mbryson

.......a few dollars more
Supporting Member
I've got rear stabilizers on the trailer and floor jack and some jack stands all loaded.
It's spring under,
so the plan is to hitch the trailer,
drop the stabilizers down,
drop the front of the leaves.
I'll likely cut the old ubolts off with a battery powered angle grinder
and then zap the new ones on with an impact and get out of there.

But if anyone has any good ideas I'm up for suggestions.


Sounds like a good plan. I'm headed out of town or I'd offer a hand
 

jeeper

Currently without Jeep
Location
So Jo, Ut
I think that will work fine. I'd like to see the trailer get as high as possible to make it easier. Jack and jack stands? Maybe new leaf bolts incase they have to be pounded out and get marred? Breaker bar to lose the stuck bolts?
 

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Ant Anstead of Dirtbikes
Supporting Member
If anyone needs an axle, Aaron Hair at Fleet Pride in Payson is your guy.
He had me an axle built exactly to my specs in just one day.
The swap went so smooth.
We hitched up @jeeper s truck
Jacked up the rear end and set it on @glockman s giant floor jack stands.
Shoveled out a hole under the ubolts in the sand and snaked the axle out over the springs. The whole thing swapped in 20 minutes flat.

Thanks for everyone who helped.
Especially @Spork who arrived as I was tightening the last lug nut. 😎

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Ant Anstead of Dirtbikes
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Okay here's a completely wild story. I pulled this thing into my driveway and parked it and the very next day I had some guy knock on my door that was moving the neighbor's piano out across the street. He said "I know you don't know me but I used to own your trailer like 5 years ago, For maybe 10 years I used it to move pianos," and he proceeded to give me the whole history of this clunker... Which explains a lot... He sold it when the same wheel bearing went out on him after abandoning it in Brigham City. He didn't even fix it, just had some random guy pick it up as is...
Wild.
 
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