by Nitetimes » Tue Nov 15, 2005 10:17 am
madjack wrote:
I have heard and agree totally with that point of view...what I would like to know is if anyone out there has had a torsion axle break on them...or even heard of one actually breaking...what I am talking about is the torsion design used by Dexter and Flexiride..
Do they break? Most definitely, in about 15 years of building and repairing trailers I have seen quite a few come back broke. But they don't generally break where you might think, I can only recall seeing 2 that the rubber went bad in them, don't know for sure what caused that tho. What I saw the most of was the spindle snapping off at the arm. (mostly on 2k axles) I replaced lots of them due to that but I also believe that the ones that were replaced for that reason should never have had torflex axles in the first place. They work well for what they are designed for but they don't handle abuse as well as spings do. If you aren't over loading them and staying to the highways/roads without craters in them you shouldn't have any problem on the other hand keep in mind that they can only flex so far, after that point something has to give and the only something there is the spindle. I personally don't care for them but I won't say for our application they aren't a good option. The choice between the two is mostly personal preference so use what you like.
Rich
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