Replacing springs?

[Legion]

Putting the rear slipper hangers in today - but I thought there should be provision for replacement if they ever break? With the springs/hangers I have, the only way you'll get the old ones out is if you cut off the end. It hangs down at a right angle. And if the new replacements are the same type, they'll never be going in. Is that right?

[Yonnee]

Huh..?? Do you mean replacement hangers, or replacement springs?

[SurfinNev]

Maybe has springs like these -

https://www.etrailer.com/Trailer-Sus...ine/803T3.html

Nev.

[Legion]

It's done now. I mean if the springs break and I need to replace them, I can't without cutting off the hangers. I have springs just like the ones Nev linked, with a right angle "keeper" at the back, which means I can't slip them out. Oh well, if I ever break a spring it will make field repairs slightly more difficult.

My question was if there was a trick to it that I was missing, because I was considering welding in gussets to the hangers a bit like I welded the drawbar to the front hangers a la Yonnee's tips. But considering there is no load on the rear hangers and I did three passes on each side, strength isn't an issue and no gussets makes removal easier.

[SurfinNev]

Just guessing here but they look like they would come out of rear hanger if they were unbolted from front and dropped down and slid forward.

Nev.

[Legion]

No, it's too tight. You'd have to either cut off the hangers (if replacing with the same springs) or cut off the right-angle bit if the replacement springs were flat slippers and could fit in. Just a bit of insurance I guess, to stop them falling out when you back over a bump.

[whitey56]

Hi Legion, Some trucks in the 50's to 70's used the same type of spring, the cast hanger was open at the bottom with a bolt and sometimes a piece of pipe as a roller to capture the spring. This post might be a bit late as I don't visit this section to often.