By the way, is there anyone following this thread who has an old WBCCI directory and could look up WBCCI #2617?
My directories only go back to 2001, so not too old. A couple named Rhodes from Dallas had that number in 2001, 2002 and 2003. Its not listed as an active number in the 2004, 2005, 2006 or 2007 directories. Its assigned to a couple named Cucinelli from Lincolnville, ME in the 2008 and not listed again in the 2009 directory. If you have plans to join the WBCCI, you could call and ask them to hold this number for you. If the Cucinelli's don't renew for 2010, then they'll issue it to you.
Well, dammit, work on the Captain may slow down a bit. I broke my dang leg playing softball this morning. Six weeks in a cast above the knee.
Brad, thanks for looking up the WBCCI numbers. Looks like I will be limited to historical research for a while, but with some help from my brother-in-law I still hope to be ready to get into Ryan's shop by September.
Norm, I'm local here in Seattle (by U Village / Huskey Stadium)... if you need help moving anything around, or anything for that matter, feel free to call me (p.m. and I'll send my phone#)
Marc
Darn, Norm, that is a shame about your leg. Our trailers are old enough they can handle a little delay ok. If you don't have any small projects you can do, I can send some down!
Were the dexstar wheels zero offset?? Shouldnt be rubbing on the shock.
This update is completely out of chronological order, but shortly before I went on the DL last week, I spent some time under the trailer and realized my axles are offset to the street-side. There is about 2 3/4 inches more clearance between the outside edge of the rear, curb-side, tire and the wheel well, than on the street-side. On the front tires/axles the difference is about an inch. Although I have not taken accurate measurements yet, I could see a similar irregularity when comparing the distance between the frame and inside edge of the tires on each side. Everything is shoved over towards the streetside between and inch and 3 inches.
This sure seems to explain why we lost a tire that first day when we moved up from the 14.5 x 7 mobile home tires to 225 75 R 15 radials. There just wasn't enough room between the tire and the shock mount on the rear curb-side. Although Jeff thought the cause was an aftermarket shock mount that stuck out too far, I think he was wrong about that. The shock mount was probably original, but with the axle shoved over and the addition of wider tires, there just wasn't enough clearance.
I'm not sure how the axles got shoved over (and I'm crossing my fingers that this is not the result of some hidden frame damage), but when we install new axles, I assume we will be able to just correctly allign the axles to provide equal clearance on all sides. Any thoughts?
Hey Norm, I'm so sorry to hear about the fracture. I sure hope you're not in too much pain, and I'm glad you have folks that can come and help you out.
Man, some folks have all the luck. Hope you have a speedy recovery and are able to get into Ryan's shop when planned.
Brad
FF
Ryan's got plenty of free time now that he's finished up with polishing for the time being. He should be able to spend a lot of time on Norm's trailer now, right?
When you do get around to changing them, I've got one bit of hindsight on mine that might apply. I went with identical measurements for the torsion axle to what I had with the original sprung axle. I had enough fender clearance to change tires, but just enough. Of course, the thing that I've changed with the new axle is ride height which also opens up clearance and it's now easy to change tires. But, I'm tight on shock clearance, and realize now that I could have gone with just a little more track width to get more room for the shocks and still have been able to get tires on and off easily. I'm ok the way I am, but hindsight . . . .well, might have done it a little differently.
When you do get around to changing them, I've got one bit of hindsight on mine that might apply. I went with identical measurements for the torsion axle to what I had with the original sprung axle. I had enough fender clearance to change tires, but just enough. Of course, the thing that I've changed with the new axle is ride height which also opens up clearance and it's now easy to change tires. But, I'm tight on shock clearance, and realize now that I could have gone with just a little more track width to get more room for the shocks and still have been able to get tires on and off easily. I'm ok the way I am, but hindsight . . . .well, might have done it a little differently.
cheers,
steve
I was wondering about that exact point. There is very little room for shock clearance on my current set up (even if it were not shoved out of alingment), but there is quite a bit of extra wheel well clearance. Since we did not have trouble changing the tires with the current ultra-low ride set up, I think an extra half-inch track width on each side (1" total) would fit fine. I will be sure to take a ton of measurements before I do anything, but even if I can sqeeze just a quarter inch per side (1/2" total additional track width) it would give sufficient width to fit the shocks back on.
I doubt it helps much but I noticed on mine that the shocks are actually mounted on an angle when compared to the plane that the axle mount plate and wheels are on. I dislike it as a solution but that's how mine were installed.
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