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Hi All,

This is the rebuild of my M416. I am calling it the "Two Week Wonder" because I only had 2 weeks to get this done. Yes, I did get it finished in that amount of time. I am sorry that I wasn't able to get anything posted while I did the work. I was doing the work at my Dad's place and did not have the time. So here it goes!

The first photo is what my trailer looked like when I bought it.

The second and third photos are the beginning of the disassembly of the trailer at my Dad's house.

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1. The fenders are off.

2. The tub is off. This trailer comes apart easily.

3. This is what I was worried about. The scale is no to bad and nothing is rusted through. This is why I am doing this.

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1. More scale.

2 & 3. Removing the lunette.

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1 & 2. The lunette.

3. The draw bar bracket, the lower hole for the lunette has been heavily painted. So, I'll have the sandblaster clean it out.

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1. The draw bar arms and bracket are now off.

2. I decided to put the lunette back in the draw bar bracket, so that the upper hole would not get sandblasted.

3. The landing leg, landing leg pivot bracket and the parking brake bellcrank.

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1. Parking brake bellcrank and the bracket for the parking brake handle.

2. Now to work on the rest of the chassis.

3. The spring shackles are 1950s J**p C-shackles.

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1 & 2. Got the frame off the axle.

3. I'm getting the springs off the axle.

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1 & 2. Things were rusted tight and I snapped a couple U-bolts getting the springs off.

3. The spring brackets off the frame.

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1, 2 & 3. The chassis in kit form.

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1 & 2. I've got the hubs off and took these photos so that I could see how the brakes went back together.

3. The brake backing plate and hardware.

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1. The spindles look good.

2 & 3. Getting the springs apart so that they can be sandblasted.

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I got everything back from the sandblaster and it looked good. I got the axle painted before I remember to take some photos.

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The sandblaster had me duct tape the areas that I did not want to get sandblasted. That is why there is duct tape on the spindles.

Everything is nice and clean now!

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1 & 2. A couple of shots of the brake backing plates. I used the flash in the second photo and it washed out some of the detail.

3. The lunette, landing leg and the ball hitch adapter.

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Painting the draw bar arms and one of the springs.

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1 & 2. Painting the safety chains and the many other parts.

3. The spring brackets.

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1. More painted parts.

2. One spring is back together.

3. The spring plates.

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1. A spring is ready for reinstallation.

2. The draw bar bracket ready for primer.

3. The lunette hardware about to be painted.

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1. The lunette ready for primer.

2. The draw bar bracket primed and ready for paint.

3. The lunette is done and drying.

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1 & 2. The draw bar bracket is drying.

3. The frame all primered.

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1. The frame primered.

2 & 3. The frame painted and drying.

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I got the fenders painted to see if the color was right and it was.

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I had taken the tub right from the sandblaster to the Line-X shop to get it lined. I know some of you would have recommended that I do a Herculiner liner to save some money. But doing it this way, saved me a lot of time and the color turned out great.

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I ran into a little trouble here. The Line-X shop damaged the tabs for one of the drains. So, I had to wait to get this repaired before I could paint the tub.

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So, I continued to work to get the chassis back together. Here you see the spring brackets are reinstalled, the extended bump stops for the spring-over and that the draw bar is reassembled.

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1 & 2. I got the final pieces of the draw bar together, the landing leg and safety chains.

3. The body shop that had welded up some other holes in the bed, rewelded the drain tab and I was ready to paint the tub.

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I painted the tub and did some touch-up on the fenders.

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I went back to work at getting the chassis rolling again. I installed the springs and axle. I put the brakes back together and installed the wheel hubs with new bearings. Then I hooked up the parking brake cable. Because I had done a spring-over, I had to make these simple brackets to relocate the cable housings. I also had to make a longer J-hook from all-thread for the parking brake to work.

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1. The J-hook installed.

2. The parking brake handle is installed. I didn't have time to paint now, but will get it painted later.

3. I installed the new shocks.

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I put on the wheels and now I have a rolling chassis again.