etrailer | MORryde Tandem Axle Trailer Rubber Equalizers Installation

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Hi there, trailer owners. Today, we're gonna be taking a look at MORryde's rubber equalizers for tandem axle trailers with a 33-inch wheelbase. And this is what our new equalizers look like when they're installed. They are gonna be larger in size than your traditional equalizer because we've got rubber dampeners inside, and it's just a heavier duty application than what your standard one is. Your standard one's just constructed with metal. This one has a very large, beefy bracketry to it with the dampeners inside.

You've got your kinda traditional portion of the equalizer down here at the bottom where it attaches to our leaf spring eyelets, using these shackles. The shackles don't come included with your equalizer. These are shackles from MORryde though, and they're also heavy duty upgraded shackles that come included with wet bolts. I do recommend using this particular shackle and wet bolt kit because it works very well with this equalizer. It's all from MORryde.

It slides together and the MORryde equalizer here does come with bronze bushings pre-installed. So it's recommended that you use wet bolts with this equalizer, so you can maintain the lubrication on those bronze bushings. With this system here, our rubber dampener there takes a lot of the load from our axles as they're moving up and down. And over time, this is going to wear out the rubber dampener inside. You are gonna get plenty of years of service out of it though, so you don't think this is gonna be like, just you gotta replace this rubber every time you take your trailer out.

If we take a closer look at our rubber dampener here, this is kinda the magic that happens with this dampener. 'Cause as our suspension moves, this dampener is gonna absorb a lot of that impact before it transfers from one axle to the other and to our trailer. Also, since this can compress, we're gonna get more movement out of our axles than with other equalizers. The dampener though, it takes all of the brunt of the load here. Over time, this is going to wear out.

Now, MORryde does say that it's normal to see cracks and little weather marks in it. Over time, those cracks do occur, but they provided a wear indicator into the equalizer, so you can tell when it's completely worn out. This lip right here is actually the wear tab. Down here on the bottom, when this face here on this blue surface, it will eventually get closer and closer to this wear tab as the rubber wears out. And once the wear tab is resting on the equalizer here, our dampener has completely worn out and we're basically back to just a standard equalizer at that point 'cause it's all metal on metal. It's gonna work just like basically a regular equalizer once all this rubber is worn out. At that point, it would be recommended to replace the equalizer, so that way, you can get your dampening properties back. But it is really cool that the way they've designed it here that as you're wear component, which is always gonna be your dampeners, as they wear out, it falls into a position where it acts as a standard equalizer, so that's really nice. You don't ever have to worry about it just completely failing on you. It's just going to do its thing until eventually it's worn out and you just gotta replace it, but it's still gonna function. No fail will ever occur. So here we can see how our MORryde suspension is gonna be a major upgrade over our factory equalizer. The factory equalizer here attaches to a leaf spring on each side. You have your front and your rear axle attaching there, and then this is a pivot point in the center. What'll happen is when you're driving, this pivots as your rear tire here or the front tire, whichever one, as it hits a bump, it can move up and then it'll kinda push down the other axle. And that'll give your axles a lot more movement because as one can move, the suspension will work together with the other to give it more free movement. So that way, your tires can move around as need be, and the suspension can travel rather than just transferring all of those impacts and stuff from the road into your trailer. This is gonna work similarly, but we've got an extra level of dampening in here. Because with this one, whenever our axle wants to move up or down and it goes to push up on this to allow movement to occur, there's a large rubber dampener inside, and that's gonna absorb a lot of that impact. With this one, we have no dampening really whatsoever. It'