by flboy » Wed Sep 12, 2018 1:17 pm
Tommy... nooo
The lift is 4 inches which is the stackup of the axle diameter and a new perch they weld on top. Do not want to turn a drop axle 180 deg..
Is there someone different there? 10 inches makes no sense. The drop axle does not flip... just mounted underneath the leaf spring with new perches welded on top side of axle.. should not rotate axle with drop turned upside down to be a lift... as said... potentially issues with that if there is a camber bend. Folks do do it however. You will know if it eats the tires off. It does also create a geometry change due to significant lift, so beware of hitch height, new tow dynamics, and etc..
"Flipping the axle" is a term associated because on a straight axle, you do just flip it upside down and use the existing perch and the underside of the leaf spring. That is a problem also if there is a slight camber bend so new perches welded on opposite side is ussually a good idea even on a a straight axle. On a drop axle, same term, but actually do not flip because of the drop offset, but put perches on the other side of axle and move under the leaf. Not sure why they are confused given that is thier business.
Placing leafs on top of axles gives you the lift of 1/2 the axle diameter and the height of new perches. Should be 3 to 4 inches. If you wanted more for whatever reason, then they get longer U bolts and add blocks or replace the entire axle with a straight axle which takes out the drop altogether, but the 4 inches is all you should need. If you got 10 inches which probably looks odd, I am assumming they flipped the drop axle and moved it under the leaf spring on the existing perches... so you got 2X the drop, plus 1/2 axle diameter as a lift.
They did mine by putting axle underneath leaf springs and adding new perches with my drop axle which should not affect the camber bend. This cannot be the same folks that did mine at Fergusons.
I unwittingly ordered my trailer with the more expensive drop axles at salesman's advice (they are preferred supposedly to keep entry height down).. but I did not realize how much offroad clearance was given up for tanks and etc. underneth. If I had it to do over again, I would get straight axles. I "flipped" mine as I did for needed clearance of the tanks and etc. , but the axle height below the camper is still lower than a straight axle would be for same trailer height. I just do not want to spend the $$ on new axles right now. If I do later, it will be to upgrade to 5,000 lb axles.
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flboy on Wed Sep 12, 2018 6:46 pm, edited 4 times in total.