How to jack a trailer wheel up?

[flagmanruss]

I farm out to a local heavy equipment excavation contractor (if I can get them). I still feel the toy hauler trailer axles are off to one side. They crawled around underneath & said maybe so but the mismatched steel wheels have different offsets. They are chromed steel aftermarket wheels. Today I did what they told me to... each axle had matched wheels, same size 225/75R15 trailer but different branded tires. I swapped the wheels side to side. Pretty much a 'beach' for me to do, I'm so physically limited now. Jack up one side, blocks under the brake drum, move around to other side, swap wheels, take wheel back to start & reinstall. The lugs were on pretty d@mn tight, had to use 1/2" drive, breaker bar & a 3' cheater. I gave the 20T Harbor Freight jack a workout! I think it took me 4 hours +/-. Got 'er done!

If you look real close to the wheels... one has round holes, the other has D shaped "mouse holes" before the swap. They are now matched on same side. The round holes are 3 1/2" from the wheel center to the inside bead while the D shaped is 3 1/8". So my guys were right. Spare is round holes.

[hd99fxr3]

another thing to check would be the torsion rubbers in the axle. If they are shot, you would get offsets like you are talking about.

[flagmanruss]

My horse trailer has torsion axles. The Toy Hauler has leaf springs, so not that (in this case). Thanks for the thought, though... I appreciate it. Russ