blong
Active Member
Folks,
Just a heads up to check your correct track nuts for tightness, These are the bolts the go through the yellow plates into the frame shackles that hold the suspension up on your trailer. We picked up our rig August last year. Its been for two outings one brief week long run last summer and our annual Florida run in March. We were all set to leave the campground last weekend when I noticed one of the yellow plates turned sideways and the bolt sticking out from the mount. Long story short, the nut came loose and feel off and the bolt was just barely hanging on in the slot it goes through. Had we not noticed and driven away and the bolt could have completely fallen out and it could have been disastrous. So CHECK the nuts to make sure they are in fact still all there, and tight. We found a nut that fit, (A friend and local fulltime camper owns a auto shop nearby and found us the right one), that got us home. When the nut came off the inside yellow plate was lost too...another warranty request. It looks like the one bolt is too short, so the nut was not on far enough to catch the locking threads and thats why it fell off. I can not believe someone would let this go out of the factory this way. The guy who did this would know it was too short when he put the nut on, but did not care obviously. I would not be able to sleep at night knowing this one thing could have cost someone their life had it caused a serious crash when the suspension dropped out. Too Scary and we feel lucky to have caught it in time.
Just a heads up to check your correct track nuts for tightness, These are the bolts the go through the yellow plates into the frame shackles that hold the suspension up on your trailer. We picked up our rig August last year. Its been for two outings one brief week long run last summer and our annual Florida run in March. We were all set to leave the campground last weekend when I noticed one of the yellow plates turned sideways and the bolt sticking out from the mount. Long story short, the nut came loose and feel off and the bolt was just barely hanging on in the slot it goes through. Had we not noticed and driven away and the bolt could have completely fallen out and it could have been disastrous. So CHECK the nuts to make sure they are in fact still all there, and tight. We found a nut that fit, (A friend and local fulltime camper owns a auto shop nearby and found us the right one), that got us home. When the nut came off the inside yellow plate was lost too...another warranty request. It looks like the one bolt is too short, so the nut was not on far enough to catch the locking threads and thats why it fell off. I can not believe someone would let this go out of the factory this way. The guy who did this would know it was too short when he put the nut on, but did not care obviously. I would not be able to sleep at night knowing this one thing could have cost someone their life had it caused a serious crash when the suspension dropped out. Too Scary and we feel lucky to have caught it in time.
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