Re: [SilverStreak] Flipped axles

["Eddie" <Eddie@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hey Al!,
That's right!

These trailers however are drop axles so it doesn't apply except that the 
axle is still bowed up in a total-length arch. Moved over or under is of 
course what is repeatedly discussed. There are also those who lengthen the 
shackle-mounts, ends, centers, or both too. The drop axles have bushed 
hanger pins and are often zerked for greasing. Great solid bar beam, center 
pin locators, they are quality products often neglected and still without 
problems! Silver Streak and Streamline are really built well unlike many 
other brands then and now. Tom Patterson kindly posted pictures on April 21 
with a link.

Your right. Your center axle should have the same arch as the forward and 
rear. Like Take-3 brand, some trailer mfgrs are not very good. Your trailer 
may be a good brand that got built on a bad day, or it may have been 
overloaded once, hit a swell etc. too hard once, or any number of things. 
I'm sure it tracks great though and as long as the axle is still straight at 
least and not bowed down it does not need attention. It's also hard to watch 
tire wear for determinations on a three-axle trailer, as that is one of the 
trade-offs.

At least you don't have the typical and not maintainable wheels flying off 
nightmare of the Take-3 trailers, stamped out walking beams, and the cheapy 
non-bushed hangars and pins. I have two of the Take-3 axles in my junk pile 
that I have not yet used for fence posts or fabrication. Even the frames are 
too light-weight full of fractures that can't be scabbed and welded fast 
enough. Just junk.
-Eddie-
Houston, TX