Think simple! That will help your diagnosis and repairs MOST times. Excellent and interesting topic/video from another trailer mechanic. Thanks A LOT! Keep up the good work Bro!
Thank you my company runs alot of older trailers and I see this all the time and frustrating ti the core, and what also amazes me when we write our trailers up the shop techs dont have a clue about this and they just grease the landing legs witch does nothing but make it worse. Thank you again for this repair.
Thank you! I literally had my new landing gear on a pallet in my shop when I saw your video. The next morning I checked and sure enough- you were right on the money. Returning the new gear to get my money back. Thanks again!
Outstanding video! "Rust jacking" is common on structural steel, in brake systems etc. It's worth searching the term and studying how it applies to more than just landing gear. Now I know why I was given two landing gear legs that have some binding (I asked my big rig mech bro for used parts to experiment with to level my mobile shipping container shop) and how to cure it.
Great video. I definitely learned a valuable tip. Do you have a video for the gears of landing gear. I have a Holland. Weird noise in high and quiet in low. In high noisy and tight. As if gears are binding.
Boy I learned something new today . Been in this business a long time. Nice tutorial on hard cranking landing gear , definitely will pass on to our shop . Thanks again.
Why wouldn't you cut away the entire front half of the collar? Won't cleaning and tacking just make it come back just as quickly? I'm just getting into trailer maintenance. So yeah as I was saying, wouldn't it be more thorough to cut away the collar and wire wheel the tube and then replace the missing collar piece with new steel? Am I overthinking this?
Ironically, the very thing that strap was put there to prevent, is what will easily quick fix it.... Put some weight on your legs and bump a little forward and rearward with your truck.. and it will widen that out a bit and work it loose again.... Of coarse if you did this without that little strap there, it would blow out the pipe.. but in a pinch, this will get you going.
ok so i have this issue i think, the legs are impossible to move up or down even with no weight on them in high gear. but move fine in low gear. would this be my issue as well
Yes, it sounds like you may have this issue. One way to tell is if there are areas on the leg portion that seem to be shinny compared to the rest of the leg. That would prove that's its rubbing as it goes up and down. Good luck.
@@greggbranham6331 the lower legs were swollen/bulged, confirmed with a square, lots of pounding with a 5lb mallet after cutting off the rings mad the difference. now you can lift the trailer in high gear with one hand, and with only a finger in low. huge improvement
@@nathan00campbell If you leave those rings off and accidentally bump your trailer while there's weight on the jacks.. it will blow out those light weight tubes... So you should absolutely make sure you put the straps back on. If you then rub grease or even silicone around the top of those straps it should prevent the future rust problem.. If water never gets in there, it shouldn't rust again.
@@calholli not a bad idea, still though. i have yet to put them back on. these holland jacks are off a semi trailer but on a 32' gooseneck. there is never a load left on the trailer when hitching or unhitching so i should be fine till i get around to figuring a better system for it . im thinking of leaving it spaced 1/8th from the legs and stitch welding so that it can never hold anything there again
So basically you dont fix the problem, you just postpone planed obsolescence. You shold only cut that bad out, clean and weld all the way around top and bottom
