Quote Originally Posted by Slunnie View Post
We do the wear pads also. The slippers will be fine. Admittedly they are not a patch on the shackle design, but the slippers come in the lighter load capacities and they keep on keeping on. Mind you, for 4WD trailers I encourage shackles, but the springs are soooooooo stiff that you need to weigh it down by a lot to make them work - slippers will work with any load out of the box.
Slippers aren't much good if your trailer gets hit up the arse.

This happened to mine a few years ago. The hyundai that hit me was a write off.

Dave.