[trackbird]

I bought one of the Harbor Freight trailers tonight for my tires. The trailer with the 12" tires is on sale for $159 right now so I picked one up. Overall, it's not bad. It went together well enough (other than the cotter keys that don't fit through the axles to hold the castle nuts on), but I soon started to find parts missing (one cotter key, a safety catch for the tongue, the cotter key for that, nuts to hold the tail lights on, etc) and a broken tail light housing. I hope to stop by harbor freight tomorrow and get replacement parts for the ones I have that are broken/missing.

After that, I need to fab a tire rack and a way to secure the tires and a tool box on the trailer. Then, off to the BMV to try and title and tag this thing. I've heard that can be a challenge, I'll let everyone know how it goes.

I guess I can't complain for $160, but I'd like to have all the parts. (IMG:http://www.frrax.com/rrforum/style_emoticons/default/rant.gif)

[Jeff97FST/A]

My Harbor Freight trailer came with all its parts IIRC.

One little bit of advice (or two)..

I used loctite on all the bolts. I didn't have faith that all those nuts would stay put.

I'd recommend putting some added insulation around the lighting wires if you passed any through frame holes. I was chasing a problem last summer with blown tail light fuses (dunno if anyone remembers my thread on trailer wiring). Come to find there were small cuts in the insulation allowing the wires to short intermittently. Small cuts. I could finally see them upon close inspection with my new, ahem, reading glasses (as the Dr put it - "My friend, you finally have enough birthdays on the calendar to need reading glasses)! I put rubber grommets in the holes this time.