Recent content by Vintage56

I would if I could but my trailer is buried in the back of the garage at the moment. I wonder if any of my pics of my underbelly spare mount would happen to be if any help? Post in thread 'New Thule Trailer' New Thule Trailer -...

What light did you go with? I too have a faulty one with an intermittent short that seems to be in the base. These trailers are getting to the age that the plastics in the lights are aging out - and mine was garage kept nearly it’s whole life. My lenses look great though. I tried finding a...

Thought I’d share with y’all how I’ve temporarily dealt with gassed lift pistons. I procured (stole from the office) a medium spring clip, used a piece of flat vinyl strap I found in the shop and cut some pieces of a bicycle inner tube to line the loop of said strap. Unbolted bottom end of...

We are now aimed at further modding our trailer to suit our needs. We definitely need it to be deeper as we had ours literally stuffed and a couple items got worn through by the roof support channel. I’d love to buy a parts trailer off someone for the box to do the double stack I’ve seen...

Our trailer tracked fantastically for our 2000 mile trek looping from OkC ->Santa Fe -> Moab UT -> Estes Park CO -> Colorado Springs and home the south route by the Caupulin Volcano, NM. I-70 eastbound was particularly rough through the hour before and after Vail CO. Those interstate road...

I also bent the spring hooks to be just a skoche more closed. That would be the weak point; if the hook end relaxes. and the cable is part of my 3 stage lock-up when leaving unattended.

If you notice the cable threaded through, that’s my “suspenders” to supplement the “belt.” If the spring fails, the cable is threaded soundly enough that nothing will sag more than an inch or two and the way it’s woven, can’t fall out any which way.

Wanted to share my version of a below-deck spare mount. Heavy on the overkill, definitely not the cheapest way to do it, but a lot of the materials I already had on hand. I first bought a spare tire carrier from under a 90s Dodge Dakota as found at my local U Pull it salvage place. Couldn’t...

I just fetched one of these little trailers last week. We bought a Jeep and realized family vacations were going to be a challenge, so my local search sourced this: