Trailer Reassembly – Monday May 13, 2013—Today the first pieces of the trailer went back together.  I don’t really know much about trailers, but it seemed that the carriage frame that attaches to the springs should be square so I used a square and measured the diagonals.  Some of the metal must be bent, because it is almost, but not quite, square.  (Off by 3/32".) 

Of course, after four bolts were in, I discovered that a different size is needed to continue—plus waiting for some nylon inserts to go back into the springs.  So glad there were plenty of pictures for reference.  There are four shackle brackets, two lateral pieces, two longitudinal pieces, all of which could go together 2 – 6 different ways. 

I have a lot of tools, but none is as useful as a large table to layout the work.

Some pictures barely showed what I needed to know.  Sometimes you know what things you don’t know, but when you start disassembly you don’t know what you will need to know later.  I think I know now—maybe!