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Originally Posted by GoMopar440  Like the title says, what's the best way to remove bent/collapsed stabilizers? ...and to add to the fun  the AS is parked under a house so it cant be jacked up very far at all.
The PO that parked it there let half the air of the tires to get it to fit. They didn't air the tires back up but they did put the stabilizers down. That was four years ago. Now the tires are completely flat and the trailer settled onto the stabilizers and bent them.
Here's the gory pics...
The best Idea I can come up at the moment is to first put some heavy duty jack (12 ton) stands near the axles, a-frame and rear bumper areas. Then use a cutting torch to cut the stabilizers off and unbolt the stabilizer mounts. Then remove the jack stands and pull it out from under the house. Once it's out, I'll put new tires and wheels on it and bolt on new stabilizers.
Anyone have any better ideas how to go about this? |
One jack at the axle mounting plate, raising one side at a time, should be ok.
Stabilizer jacks will fail, if excessive weight is applied to them.
In your case, that's exactly what happened.
I would also suggest that you check out the axles. Parked for a long period of time, destroys any torsion axle.
Andy