slipper springs

flappan

for what reason?

During my research for buying a campertrailer . . . I came across a few people that had slippers come out in offroad conditions. Also a couple break, but that I guess could happen to any spring.

What I was told was that Slippers are designed to carry a load , but don't really allow up and down movement while carrying that load (ie bitumen compared to corrigations).

I have used a slipper spring trailer offroad, and I didn't have many problems with it , but compared to my campertrailer , it seemed to bounce around a lot more, and didn't get as much wheel travel (not like it has miles of travel anyway mind you).

So as I said, depending on application.

If it was a relatively lightweight offroad trailer (not camper) then you could probably get away with slippers , if its a heavy duty or campertrailer then I would be looking at eye to eye. NO chance of them coming out.

Hey, thats my opinion anyway . . . happy to listen to more mechanically minded.