I bent the tongue right under the coupler. The trailer drives fine, but I am a little concerned about the way the trailer is tracking.
The trailer is a venture bunk trailer.
2007-02-25 04:47:40 · 6 answers · asked by Rote 2 in Cars & Transportation ➔ Boats & Boating
If you can take the piece off, you can make a place in the ground and drive over it. Another way is to pound it out with a mall. Your best bet is to find a piece of square stock smaller than what is there, drive it in and it will help.
2007-02-25 04:55:40 · answer #1 · answered by science teacher 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Send me a picture of the bend and I can give you better advice. I have straightened a few. I am a welder and have all the equipment to do it though. I one case I cut the whole thing off and grafted a new on on. A welding shop can do this for a slight fee depending where you live. This is probably the best advice. I have seen a trailer get loose, it had no safety chains, pretty fatal for the stuff in it! I was behind it, worried for a while. FYI the metal on trailers is not heat treated and will bend with some sort of good lever, a long piece of pipe etc! If you want send me a digital picture. rcduffy@yahoo.com
2007-02-25 12:58:25 · answer #2 · answered by Robert D 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Take rig to a trailer repair shop, so they can professionally evaluate & repair problem. This is not a fix it yorself option.
Safety first. Get in an accident & you may kill someone ( maybe you or yours). Then the insurance investigator looks at the makeshift repair & guess what...they may not allow your claim.
You may be stepping over a dollar to grab up a shiny dime here !
A little thousand pound trailer may be a DIY fix but not anything larger.
2007-02-26 14:31:45 · answer #3 · answered by ibeboatin 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Your first answer is the same with my suggestion....I would heat it up then bend it back into place....you could also use a "come-a-long" for that as well. If you can't do this yourself, then take it to a welder, he'll know what to do. You also may consider having him weld some extra iron on there so it won't bend as easily next time. Best of luck to you.
2007-02-25 12:57:48 · answer #4 · answered by cajunrescuemedic 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
i own a shop,and i bent my little utility trailer ,like that i tied it down and took a porta -power and pulled it back in line with it,and now it does better than it ever did,you can tie it down and heat it ,and straiten it out that way,that's about the only way i know of to straiten one of those out,good luck,i hope this help,s.
2007-02-25 12:54:44 · answer #5 · answered by dodge man 7 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Take it to your nearest machine shop in your area they will heat and retemper it to straighten it out as long as it has not been damage to the point of not being safe
2007-02-25 12:56:16 · answer #6 · answered by hypergal1942 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋