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Help, Advice Needed for Trailer

Laurie S.

Laurie S.

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I need to find a replacement wheel for the center wheel on my power trailer dolly. The original cuts the inner tube and the tire shops won't replace it. The outer wheels are the correct style, something like a drop down wheel? After running all over Tucson, I finally found a new wheel and tire that will work on my dolly, but it has no lug holes. What is the best way to drill them out, should I deflate the tire and take it apart? This is about a 10-inch tire that bolts together as a unit with the two other two tires and the chain plate.

I must move my trailer this weekend so I can't wait to get something online, although I have contacted the manufacturer.
 
Laurie can you take a picture of the stock wheel and tire as well as the machine for me?

Mel

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I don't think we have one here. There's a tractor supply, but they don't have it, either.
 
Since it is not a high speed machine, you can get away with drilling holes. I would take a template of your old wheels lug patern from cardboard and then you will have to center it on the new wheel and drill away.

Maybe the new tire on the new wheel can be removed and put on the old wheel.

I can help better if I see it.

Mel
 
I'll get some pictures on Saturday, I'm tied up all day tomorrow having fun at The High Chaparral Reunion.
 
Here are pictures of the dolly and the wheels. The wheel that apparently is wrong is the white one. Well, I had the wheel section all apart, put an old inner tube in the tire on the white wheel, and got it to work. There still is a leak, but it takes less than 30 minutes for me to get the trailer out and in place on the street.

Fix a drippy faucet? That's child's play compared to what I had to do to fix the dolly.

wheel1.jpg

dolly.jpg
 
Looks like it would be so much easier to just hitch it up to a truck.




J/K...couldn't help myself :)
 
Well, yes, it would be. However, it's impossible to pull it out with my truck due to the length of the truck, the height of the roof and trailer (1 inch clearance), and the tight angle between the house and a major power box. I did it twice, with guided help, and the second time tore off the downspout from the gutter and lifted the corner of the roof. With the dolly, I don't need no stinkin' help and haven't hit anything in the last four years.

My driveway angles steeply and I can't hook the trailer to the truck unless it's way back in the driveway. Once it comes forward, the height difference doesn't allow it, and believe me, I've tried everything.
 
Laurie, get a can of whatever you yanks call that shit that fixes flat tyres and put in the dolly tyre that leaks. Problem solved.
 
I do drive the car, however, it's a bit hard to drive the car and haul a pickup truck load of trophies, shirts, signs, etc. to a National MCA show that my club is hosting this week in Tucson. I also rarely show the car locally. I'm usually traveling to shows that are 2,000 miles away.
 
Use slime. Can you take the tire off the original wheel and see what is causing the problem and fix that. Once it is fixed then put it back together and use it.

Um, also you may want to consider having a receiver hitch on the front of your pickup and then you push the trailer into it's spot. You might find that you can sell your dolly and do what you need to do with your truck.

Mel
 
The tire shop claimed that the wheel was pinching the inner tube.

Even with a front receiver, it is too tight to push the trailer in there with the truck.
 
Hmmm. I wonder how the wheel was pinching the tube? The wheel can't really do that.

Because of my experience working at a tire shop I really wonder.

You have had this dolly for some time now and no issues before. Hmmmm. Makes me suspect.

Mel

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guruatbol said:
Hmmm. I wonder how the wheel was pinching the tube? The wheel can't really do that.

Because of my experience working at a tire shop I really wonder.

You have had this dolly for some time now and no issues before. Hmmmm. Makes me suspect.

Mel

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I'm suspicious, too. I did notice a little crease in it and the tire, but I think it was from the original installation. The guy was like, oh you can't use this wheel because your tire is going to explode. Now come on, I may be blonde, but I'm not stupid. I also had to go back because they didn't give me back any of my hardware. Fortunately, I was only a block away when I realized that. I didn't notice that they failed to give me back the valve extensions until I was home, more than 10 miles away. I love my dolly, it works like a dream and it stores right in front of my coupe in the garage.
 
Just put a heavy duty liner in it. Those split wheels will cause problems forever with out one.
 
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