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Originally Posted by Djs
I installed a new axle and a few months later noticed that the new tires I had installed we're also wearing unevenly and had worn through to the belts
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Time doesn't matter, but distance does. How far was the trailer towed to produce this wear? For most people to wear out tires in a season would be wildly excessive wear.
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Originally Posted by Djs
I took the trailer to the local trailer repair shop and they told me that the trailer was too heavy for that size axle causing the weight of the trailer to bear on the inside of the tires. I have never put anything except clothing food and fluids into the trailer and have never overloaded it.
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They're correct that the higher the load, the more this axle design causes the wheels to camber inward (negative camber), which would wear the inner shoulders; that's why these axles come with the tube across the trailer is deliberately bent upward in the middle to produce positive camber, which is reduced to roughly zero under load.
Escape has always (as far as I know) used Torflex #10 axles with 3500 pound load capacity on the 17'. While this model has become heavier over the years, it should still never be over 3500 pounds on the axle, and should be well below that with normal loading.
If you use a weight-distributing hitch it will increase the trailer axle load. You would need to greatly over-apply the WD system to increase axle load enough to be a concern... but are you using WD?