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19th Sep, 2006 at 02:30:16pm

A guy here at work had a bit of a mishap with his trailer recently - someone sideswiped it and ripped the beam axles off it (snapped the spring shackles cleanly) - or rather just off one side of it...

We've got the trailer upside-down to do the repairs and inspection, but first took the axles off and these have measured up as having a 1/16" toe in between the edges of the 12" drum...

Doing some basic math, this seems like a lot of toe to me - i'd have thought a trailer axle should be zero toe.

So - does anyone have any real factual info on what a trailer axle toe should be? Maybe this is allright? Maybe it is too much? Who knows?

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19th Sep, 2006 at 02:57:55pm

when i built my trailor using indispension units i set them parrallel, and it tows like a dream,

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19th Sep, 2006 at 03:04:34pm

I make sense to me that there may be a bit of toe in, as a bit of self correction, but it probably won't make much difference.

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19th Sep, 2006 at 06:30:17pm

my front axle has ever so slight toe in and it is dead dead stable even at fucked off 3am speeds

my trailer was built for the army for there argocats though so not sure if there weight distrobution differs from normal

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19th Sep, 2006 at 08:49:23pm

Although it is a suprise to me, mine has slight toe in too.

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the design shows a distinct lack of imagination,
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On 20th Apr, 2012 Paul S said:
I'm mainly concerned about swirl in the runners caused by the tangential entry.

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