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Originally Posted by freebeard
All the articulation is in the receiver hitch? It's scary, dump it.
You need two custom brackets on or under your back bumper that attach the same as the crossbar/hitch piece does now. There are bronze bushings in there, right? That's the way all other one-wheel trailers do it.
How does the width of the frame at the rear compare to the truck? Flat-sided teardrop or compound curve bubble?
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No bronze bushings in the vertical supports...just holes in steel plate. I just squirted some oil to reduce the amount of squeak on the way home.
If articulation = slop...then yes. If articulation means it's supposed to move/pivot...then no. The single wheel pivots in turns...just like a front wheel fer a shopping cart. I think if I have the hitch adapter rebuilt with 2" stock, the rolling should be minimized. If that doesn't work...I'll have to see what it will take to stabilize the roll.
I need to fab up a way of locking the wheel in the forward trailing position when I don't have the trailer hooked up. Even though it has support legs in the rear, it doesn't work as well as one would think.
Once I have the trailer torn down, I'll be able to git the measurements and post them along with the piccies.
There's no way I could put brackets on my bumper as the tailgate would hit them when the tailgate is down.