trailer leaf spring corrosion

I guess the east coast is saltier than the west, that might explain a few things over the years...

Jake is right that any lube doesn't do much good in a leaf spring. I can also tell you that my leaf springs on my Trailex, which I replaced a few years ago, started rusting a few months after I installed them, and I coated them with WD-40 and didn't move the trailer, and they were never in saltwater or any water other than rain. Clearly I didn't get the galvanized variety (I think I ordered direct from Trailex), anyway, oh well.

Don't use Boesheild T-9 on anything that will be exposed to dirt. I see to use it to lube my traveler (before McLube came along), based on rave reviews by my dealer and a fellow sailor. All it did was trap sand/dirt/road grime, which the traveler ground into a fine paste, and made the traveler stickier than if I'd done nothing...

WD-40 is similar, in my experience. I ruined an electric train engine when I was a kid by spraying that on the wheels and motor.

Mike

From my experience I wouldn't use any of this stuff... for that very fact... it is a sludge magnet.

I had always made it a point to hose off my trailer after sailing as much as the boat... having a pressure washer with the hose to the hot water heater helped Understandably, you won't keep the rust from coming, but maybe retard it some...

I get the fact the being exposed to heat and humidity plays a roll here, but... I think being exposed to the salt air is worse... where my boat a trailer are is right on the ocean..

crap... that too. I guess torsion axle it is then.... I wonder how hard it would be to retrofit the torsion axle on (single axle) without upsetting the balance/ alignment?

probably something best left to a trailer service business?

I was looking at this on eTrailer last night... does not seem like it is that involved.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gDv4o83T4cg