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Attach Fenders and Wheels

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Building Harbor freights $990 trailer

What happens here

Attach the fenders over the wheel wells using the provided hardware. These protect the trailer and its cargo from debris thrown up by the tires. Subsequently, install the fully assembled wheel and tire units onto the axles. Ensure the lug nuts are tightened to the manufacturer's specified torque using a torque wrench.

Goal: Install protective fenders and functional wheels

Tools and materials

  • 11mm Socket — Tightening bolts
  • 15mm Socket — Tightening bolts
  • Fenders Haulmaster — Protecting from road debris
  • Lug Nuts — Securing wheels to the axle
  • Torque Wrench — Applying precise torque to lug nuts and other critical bolts (25 ft-lbs for 15mm, 10 ft-lbs for 11mm)
  • Wheels and Tires Haulmaster — Mobility of the trailer

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so I thought I'd check in with Frankie and see how he's doing but I found him out in his truck so that's a perfect chance for me to scare the crap off I really wanted to find out was how the install was going and whether he was using the directions or the video more let's just find out after we're done scaring the crap out of them of [Music] course cuz it just doesn't it explains it a little better on the video than they do on here plus it kind of shows you too but you're saying the video is better than the book yeah but this this I get to know what's you follow my steps anyways and then I just jump to the video when I run problems but okay but I've been jumping to the video quite a bit okay so but yeah otherwise yeah things are it's going all right I guess like a giant Lego pretty much mhm like a giant Lego so what we're doing today is the Bare Bones $999 Harbor Freight trailer now there's a number of options and you can set this thing up however you like in whatever way suits you best and I've got a bunch of stuff coming for Frankie down the pipeline but we'll save that for a second video I wanted to really just show you what you ended up getting for the $999 in this video [Music] oh [Music] okay so everything on the trailer Frankie was put together with a 11 15 15 and 11 a 15 mm socket and an 11 mm socket no welding no except for the Springs right where the Springs y so you'll need three tools pretty much and a torque wrench and a torque wrench what do they use the torque wrench for the torque everything down all the bolts so all the bolts get torqued to what I think it was 25 and 10 25 and 10 10 25 on the 15s and 10 on the 11s so on a scale of 1 to to 10 for building this cuz Frankie you build everything I mean he builds everything from houses to to cars to he'll throw a transmission in he'll put new front ends in he'll put everything and he'll go out and frame a deck and that's just he just loves building stuff on a scale of 1 to 10 what would you rate putting this together for easiness or hard I mean 10 is the hardest one is the easiest does that make sense or is that vice versa what's the I'm going to put the I had to go back and forth to the to the video and the and to the instructions cuz the video to me was a lot easier to watch

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