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Reply With QuoteNever seen one break in that spot.It can be fixed.They make a channel tubing that should fit inside that tubing.A welding shop can fix you right up.
Hopefully its covered under warranty.
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Trailer frame cracked in half
Went fishing today and got home and noticed my little fishing boat was leaning on the trailer and I looked around and I found that the frame has cracked in half. It's a caravan trailer that is 7 years old. I sure hope it's covered under the lifetime frame warranty. If not can this be fixed?
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Never seen one break in that spot.It can be fixed.They make a channel tubing that should fit inside that tubing.A welding shop can fix you right up.
Hopefully its covered under warranty.
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Ironically I just had some welding work done this week. had some work done on the transom. I sent him a picture and he said no problem. Went to Canada in June. Sure am glad it didn't break on me up there.Originally Posted by KyTyer
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Yep, it can be fixed. If it's not covered under warranty, make certain that the welder who fixes it, cuts holes in the scab material and plug welds the steel in place, not just welds around the edges.
Can you post an close up picture of the break? I wanna take a closer look at it and can't get it to enlarge on my computer.
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Here's a couple more pictures
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There's something I either can't tell from the picture or can't figure out. There is NO rust on the now exposed edges of metal. The galvanizing is only a coating so the break isn't galvanized. You obviously had an all at once, catastrophic failure on your way home. Did you hit something or drop a tire off the asphalt in a curve? It's hard to break 2x4 tubing, even 14 gauge like that appears to be. He's going to have to scab the metal from the inside of the tubing or your spring hangar bolt will no longer fit. Plug weld, plug weld, plug weld.
The guy that fixes it may think to do so, but in case he doesn't, unhook your wiring from your brake lights. Tie a piece of welding wire to it and pull it back up towards the tongue. Welding and plating over that crack will melt your light wires.
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I can't think of anything that happened on the way home that would have caused this.There's something I either can't tell from the picture or can't figure out. There is NO rust on the now exposed edges of metal. The galvanizing is only a coating so the break isn't galvanized. You obviously had an all at once, catastrophic failure on your way home. Did you hit something or drop a tire off the asphalt in a curve? It's hard to break 2x4 tubing, even 14 gauge like that appears to be. He's going to have to scab the metal from the inside of the tubing or your spring hangar bolt will no longer fit. Plug weld, plug weld, plug weld.
The guy that fixes it may think to do so, but in case he doesn't, unhook your wiring from your brake lights. Tie a piece of welding wire to it and pull it back up towards the tongue. Welding and plating over that crack will melt your light wires.
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Trailer frame cracked in half
Are you the original owner? The reason I ask, is that I saw someone pull a nearly sunken boat out the lake earlier this year. The frame had a good 30 degree bend in about the same location, when he first pulled the boat out. The steel sprung back into place, but it had to have some unseen damage.
Eric
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Yes. Bought it in 2011.
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I have repaired 18 wheeler frames, trailers etc...like has already been said...that would or should have been hard to break. It's odd the is little to no bending around the break. If it were stressed vertically or horizontally the steel would look as if it were torn from the stress, but the break looks clean. With it being right beside the u bolt I wonder how the u bolt was torqued from the factory. It may just be me but the tube looks as if the sides are caved outward slightly. Both sides...going opposite. That psi would have come from t op and bottom. I wonder if that u bolt was over torqued from the factory which had that tube stressed and over time with nowhere for the stress to do because the u bolt goes down both sides it broke. This would explain where it is and why it is a complete clean break. I'm like the previous poster, where is the rust. Normally a break starts with a crack...you find because it will be rusty because it was cracked first, the broke when it psi was more that the material could stand. Does look to be an easy fix though. Glad it didn't damage your boat!
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