Stabilizer Bar Kit and Axle Upgrade Kit. Now available.

**Stabilizer Bar Kit- an option you might need.

1. Eliminate the "slop" between the draw bar and the receiver tube.

2. Takes the stress off receiver tube opening when backing up, this prevents "stretching out the receiver tube opening".

These are common problems and we have a great way to fix it.

This is a required upgrade for those of you with trailers over 10,000 lbs no matter how tight the draw bar fit is in the receiver hitch. The reason we recommend this is, there is a tremendous side load on the drawbar and receiver tube when backing up. The Stabilizer Bars help spread that load out and can prevent bending or breaking the draw bar or splitting the receiver tube.

We are offering a "Stabilizer Bar" kit to help reduce the "looseness" and "wandering" of the front of the trailer when the draw bar is loose in the receiver hitch tube.

"Do you have this problem?

Here is a quick way to find out:

Unhook the trailer and pull ahead a foot or so. Grab the back of the Trailer Toad (it took me and my son) and see if you can slide it sideways. If it moves more than an inch, it means your draw bar is not a tight fit in the hitch receiver tube. I would consider the "stabilizer bars" or something similar you fabricate yourself.

If you want some help deciding on how to get your Trailer Toad equipped with Stabilizer Bars just call or email me and we can work it out.

We have Stabilizer Bar kits available right now. All we need is a measurement from the mounting hole on your Trailer Toad 3500HD to the main tube on your tow vehicle hitch.

For some customers it will be easy to copy what I did because you have the equipment. For others, we will make them for you.

Cost of the complete Stabilizer Bar Kit is $119.95.

The Stabilizer Bar kit consists of:

two- QA-1 5/8" RH rod-ends,

two- QA-1 5/8" LH rod-ends,

four jam nuts,

two- threaded steel stabilzer bars with 5/8" LH and RH threads.

two special brackets that can be bolted on or welded on (that choice is up to the customer).

We need the meausurement from where you can mount the bracket on the hitch (side panels seem to work the best) to the center of the threaded hole on the outer end panel on the Trailer Toad. From that measurement we can make the Stabilizer Kit and send it out the next day.

Axle Upgrade Kit:

Put 15" tires on your Trailer Toad, make it work like a 3500HD model.

Problem: Difficulty locating 12" ST145 replacement tires.

Reason: RV manufacturers were the primary users of the 12" tires and when their businesses either shut the doors or drastically reduced production the tire importers quit bringing the 12" tires into the U.S. We cannot find a U.S. manufacturer of this tire and we sure can't make them out of thin air so we have to offer you an alternative. There are two options:

Replace your 12" tires and wheels with 13" tires and wheels that are more readily available. You will have to either fabricate some new fender brackets or modify existing brackets. You can also use the new 3500HD fenders we put on the 2009 Trailer Toads and either make your own bracket or get one from us.
Replace the axle assembly with the new 2010 Trailer Toad 3500HD Axle Upgrade Kit. It is made to keep the Trailer Toad at the same height and bolt on to existing Trailer Toads. The Kit comes with fenders and all hardware. Tires and wheels are optional as we felt most customers will use a local tire store to purchase their ST205/75R15C tires and wheels.

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Trailer Toad * PO Box 448 * Janesville * IA* 50647 Phone: (319) 404-7001 trailertoad1@yahoo.com