Cómo Medir un Eje de Torsión Dexter

Hi, Patrick with Axle Incorporated, and today we're gonna be discussing a torsion axle. So these are a little different axle. They look totally different. We don't use a leaf spring. This has the spring material inside the tube, so it frees up a lot of space and you don't have to worry about failing suspension components.

So when we spec this axle, the sheet's a little bit different. We're gonna be discussing bracket height, bracket type, angle of the arm, and so forth. So to begin with, we're gonna look for an axle tag. Now, this being a torsion axle, the main torsion axle plant is plant 12. So like I said before, we always can tell which plant manufactured the axle by the first two digits.

So this axle was made over in Fremont, Indiana, and we're gonna spec it out pretty much the same way. So we're gonna go, say we need one. The axle brand, this is a Dexter axle, and next the question's gonna be capacity. So if there's no tag on it, there's a couple of things you can do. Number one, measure this tube.

This is a two-inch tube, so this is what they call a number nine torsion axle. We're gonna look at the hub. We're gonna measure the hub using the Dexter measuring tool. This one's gonna come down. It is five on four-and-a-half. Quick thing, this is also an EZ Lube hub. Now, when we look at this hub, you can see...

It takes the same inner and outer bearing, which on this one it is a 44649. This axle was ordered with the brake flange, so later on down the road you don't have to change the axles to add brakes to it. So we are gonna measure this for the hub face, which is where the wheels bolt on. We're gonna grab that side and measure over to this side This axle is 67 and five eighths hub face, or it could be 67.

Next, Dexter always measures their torsion axles as an outside bracket measurement. So this axle can either mount straight up through the bottom of the s- the frame, or it can use a weld-on bracket and mount through the side of the frame. But we are gonna measure this outside to inside, and that measurement is 52 and a half inch outside of bracket.

Or no, got that wrong. We're gonna measure outside to outside. It's 54 and a half outside to outside. Now, there's three different options that we can do as far as bracket height. Number one, this bracket would be welded flush on top of the axle. You can also go one-inch high rise or, as Dexter calls it, just high-rise bracket.

This one is what they consider a three-inch high-rise bracket. So from the tube to the top of the bracket, we are three inches So the other thing that we need to know is the angle on the torsion arm, and we have three different choices on this one You can go up trail, down trail. What they call zero, this torsion arm would be level this direction.

Up trail, this arm would be going up, up and up. This is what we call down trail, and this one is what we would consider to be twenty-two degrees down trail. Ten degrees, we would be just slightly higher. And you can actually go on this number nine torsion axle all the way down to forty-five degrees down, and that's common on a lot of snowmobile trailers.

This axle is for a snowmobile trailer, and it can be purchased here from Axle Ink. Our lead time is five to seven days to get an axle in our hands. Have a great day.