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Originally Posted by bobbecky
Not trying to make more work for you, but you might have checked the u-bolt nuts for torque while you were under there. Should be torqued while the trailer is fully on the ground so the springs are fully loaded. Torque for the nuts on 1/2" u-bolts should be between 45 to 70 ft lbs. A Dexter engineer years ago at a rally said the target torque should be closer to 70 ft lbs.
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Well, under the trailer I went....again.....torque wrench in hand. There are two u-bolts per side of each axle...so 12 u-bolts and 24 nuts. I set the torque wrench to 65 ft lbs and of the 24 that I check, there were 10 or 11 that were loose....or more specifically....I could turn them. A few were maybe 1/4 of a turn, a few more that was maybe a 1/2 turn or a bit less, and the others were somewhere between 1/2 a turn to almost a full turn. Thank you again for the reminder and it obviously was worth the time to torque them correctly.
