campwithme wrote:ok trailer loaded weights 1000 lbs. I have golf crate tires tried different tire pressures.
I don't know if your tires are like these
http://recstuff.com/18.5-8.508-Load-Range-C-Bias-Ply-Trailer-Tire.aspx, but if they are, then you might be overtaxing your tires. At 1000 lbs, you would be 7% over max @ 50psi. Maybe what you're experiencing isn't really bouncing (heavy springs and/or overinflated tires), but the squirming and flex of the tires' sidewalls. Not enough tire for the load. In a similar vein: My accountant father, long gone now, once told me that the shocks were bad or something on his pickup (3/4 ton with 16.5" diameter wheels), so when he dropped by one night, I took a test ride. It sure rode loosely. I asked to drive, and yep, it was squirming even on straight roads. I stopped, got the flashlight and tire pressure gauge, and checked all four tires...10-12psi on all four! (A friend at work had deflated them for him, for driving in snow!) Those tires were intended for 80 psi; I was amazed they hadn't come unseated off the rims. Properly inflated the tires at the first gas station, then the pickup had a firm but really positive feel. It was only two years old, so no problems existed except for gross under-inflation. Maybe not the same situation for you, but the point is that the tires and springs need to be working together and be in the same ballpark as the intended loads carried. My trailer, as usual for me, tests the envelope, but manages to be slightly within its' limits.
by campwithme » Thu Aug 22, 2013 12:05 am 
