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Upgrade your single-axle trailer's suspension with this heavy-duty hardware kit. 1/2" Thick, sturdy steel shackle straps replace the standard shackle straps on your trailer's double-eye leaf spring suspension for heavy-duty applications.
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It's easy to upgrade your trailer's standard suspension with this set of heavy-duty shackle straps. First, disconnect your leaf springs from the front and rear hangers. Then reconnect the springs to the front hangers and suspend the springs from the rear hangers using these thick shackle straps and the included bolts, bushings, and locknuts.
Average Customer Rating: 4.6 out of 5 stars (127 Customer Reviews)
Upgrade your single-axle trailer's suspension with this heavy-duty hardware kit. 1/2" Thick, sturdy steel shackle straps replace the standard shackle straps on your trailer's double-eye leaf spring suspension for heavy-duty applications.Great upgrade for my Dexter axle. My old hangers were toast and of much lesser quality. I have about 40,000 miles on the old set.
My small travel trailer had an awful suspension system creak. It was embarassing to drive through a campground. Not only that, that noise must have indicated things were experiencing unusual wear. Since the suspension upgrade, the creak is gone. I had my upgrade installed by a mechanic, but someone reasonably handy could likely do the job themselves.
These are certainly an upgrade over the factory shackles that came with my Keystone. The holes on the factory shackle straps were ovalized by the 9/16" bolts, so clearly undersized and/or overloaded. These upgraded shackles appear up to the task, and the ability to grease with the zerk fittings should ensure long term durability. It's handy to have a shop vise to widen or shrink the large shackle with the two bolts already pressed in, as they came slightly bowed in, and I had to stretch them out a bit for the opposing strap to slide over both holes. No special tools were required to insert the bronze bushings into the spring, I simply used the included bronze bushings as a punching tool along with a brass hammer to hammer out the factory nylon bushings inside the leafs.
The Morryde tandem kit and the Genuine Dexter single axle kit appear to be quality material, the shackle straps are massive compared to the 1/8” original mild steel straps, and so far have been easy to install. I did this upgrade on a trailer with a GVWR of only 8500# and 3500#, respectively, but if you have a heavier trailer I think you would be a fool to not buy these kits and have the reassurance that your suspension is not the weakest point on your trailer. You only need basic tools to do it, but if you’re short on time, buy the kit and have a shop install it for you. I also bought the Lippert Road armor and have a Shocker equalizer hitch and now you can’t tell there’s a trailer hooked up to me. If your back hurts like mine did after hours of towing because your wife is stuck on her phone or napping, spend the money on these upgrades.
The package was majorly damaged, but thankfully, nothing inside was damaged. I'm unable to upload the picture, but I don't know why. I tried 4 different formats.
the other problem is the shackles. The shackle straps didn't fit together, so I had to pry them apart to get them lined up.
I was going to give a 3 star review, but since I can't even upload pictures of the destroyed box, 2 stars it is.
Sierra K.
11/19/2021
I apologize for the issues uploading a photo. If you send the photo to me, I can upload it for you.
One of the brackets in the kit was the wrong size. Not etrailers fault but they took care of it right away. Brackets are well made. I did strip one of the nuts so be careful not to over-torque them.
My original hangers where bent some how. So i decided to get this. When i was swapping out the bushings ona leaf spring that was only a year old, the plastic bushings where destroyed after only one year. Im very happy with the metal bushings that come with this hangers and the fact i can grease them regularly. I very happy with this product.
This was THE addition I was looking for on our used camper we just bought. Turns out the shackle straps had NOT been serviced every 25k miles and 2 out of the 4 sets had completely sheared through, others all compromised and ready too. This was missed at time of purchase and I towed it home without knowing, NOT SAFE.
I wont worry again about them AND I can now service the through bolt and provide lubricant to each pivot connection. I highly recommend!
It would of been a a 5 star for be, but out of box on 2 sets I had to manually bend and align all 4 pre anchored posts that were aready installed on one strap to match the pre-drilled holes of the other to align properly. It was as if they weren't dry fit before packing and shipping.
Very happy with the quality/ thickness of the material.
Installation was easier than I expected.
Over all this is a good upgrade investment.
Great upgrade from what it was these units are pretty well over loaded soon as you take it off the lot 4400 pound spring assemblys and camper is 8600 empty these 5 leaf units should help
Another great product from Etrailer by Dexter. The shear size difference between the old shackles is huge. These are definitely Heavy Duty and will last a long time over the small stock ones. I like that all the bolts have grease fittings for easy maintenance. These shackles are Amazing and I will be installing a set on my Dads trailer this year. Great product and always great Customer Service.
My rig was going on 5 years old. I knew it was time to upgrade before breaking down beside the road.
These are extremely heavy duty parts.
Those wet bolt are the only way to go on a leaf trailer. Easy to install, maintain, and will outlast the springs if greased regularly
Peace of Mind. That is what I think of after upgrading the suspension on the trailer. From the brass bushings to the thicker shackles having a more sturdy and dependable suspension on the trailer gives me peace of mind when traveling around. My family did a big trip cross country last summer and I never had to worry about the suspension because I had upgraded to a more heavy duty set up. The dexter components I used are absolutely perfect with the road armor suspension equalizer that I installed. I definitely recommend upgrading the suspension from what comes standard on most travel trailers.
We had this awful squeak. I was so loud and embarassing. This took care of the problem. No more squeak.
NEED I SAY MORE.
Sierra K.
6/21/2022
I am sorry that your items arrived like that. Was anything damaged or lost?
Easy to install and working great.
Very good product
The Dexter shackle kit is a great upgrade and Heavy Duty in construction. A needed improvement over oem shackles and plastic bushings on our Forest River trailer.
I ordered the Dexter Heavy Duty Suspension Upgrade Kit and a set of leaf springs for my travel trailer, and they arrived in 1 box in 5 days (counting the weekend days) from Missouri to Maine. Very impressive especially for free shipping (over the $xx minimum). They all fit perfectly, and the shackles are way more rugged than the original ones. 3 of the grease fittings didn't take grease from my grease gun without leaking but were easily replaced with ones from the local auto store.
This kit is really nice and east to grease the leaf spring bushings. The Dexter shackles are about double the thickness as normal ones. Great product!
Purchased this product for my 2019 Nitro Z-19 bass boat trailer. These trailers are very well known to be extremely squeaky while going down the road and this product took every squeak away from the trailer. To be honest, I am amazed at how much noise reduction the wet bolts took away from the trailer.
If I had to do it over again, I would make a Before & After YouTube video so you could hear for yourself at how quiet my trailer is now. Installation is a little tricky, but if you know your way around a trailer and have the correct tools, it's really not that bad.
If you are looking to take the squeak away from your trailer, do not hesitate and purchase this right now!
Tony
8/1/2021
My trailer is still amazingly quiet! I have to add grease to the grease zerk about once a month, but am still extremely pleased with this product.
I received the replacement kit today and again I received the wrong size Shackle links. This is twice now, not sure why am I receiving the wrong product.
Good quality and good fit. They went right together and after a year have not required any retorque. No rust either.
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Henry
10/12/2023
After a year and a number of outings with the trailer, the suspension is still creak- free. Very happy to have made the upgrade.