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Assess Trailer Axle Damage

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Fixed My Bent Trailer Axles 1000 Miles From Home With a Jack

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What happens here

The creator introduces the problem, showing a trailer carrying a light blue Cadillac Escalade where the trailer's axles are visibly bent. This bending causes the tires to wear out prematurely on the inside edge. The video highlights the significant inward camber of the trailer wheels. The goal of this project is to temporarily fix these bent axles to allow for a long drive from Arizona to Oklahoma without further tire damage or safety issues. The problem likely stems from the trailer being frequently overloaded.

Goal: Identify and understand the issue of bent trailer axles and tire wear.

Tools and materials

  • Overloaded vehicle — The load being transported, which may have caused or exacerbated the bent axles
  • Trailer with bent axles — The object requiring repair due to bent axles

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fine I'll show you how what about a thousand miles from home right now home is in where I have to put this trailer back at it's messed up these axles are bent pretty bad like they were wearing out the tire pretty much early the axles were bent before I left but it's kind of one of those things where I didn't have time to fix it so I was gonna send it anyway now I'm gonna try to fix it I got a drive back to Oklahoma from Arizona and I don't know how many blowouts this one's wearing 22 it's a straight axle trailer so I'm at a Harbor Freight that I found I'm some put a pole Jack runner there pump it up and see if we can't get it fixed I mean at least get it better than how it is now yeah it's probably overloaded I'm pretty sure every trailer that this Escalade has ever been on has been overloaded and the other one I used to use this five lug axle also and it did just fine I went all over the place with it so somebody who ever used this before me freakin screwed it all up I don't know what they did I'm gonna hit something I don't know you can see under there there's a decent bow to it see if it works can't hurt fresh sign of hotness think

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