usingmyrights
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I recently bought my first boat and the trailer needs some work. I haven't even got to looking at the bearings yet to see if they need replaced because one of the leafsprings is broken. They did a rigging job of putting it together it looks like, but the rest of the trailer looks good with only a couple of the bunk boards needing to be replaced. These were single leaf springs and my question is do you really need them? My dad has a jetski trailer and it doesn't have any leaf springs on it. I found a place online that it looks like I can get the springs for about $45. The 2nd part of this question is that they used a small square tube axel. Would I be able to drive through the axel and just run a heavyduty bolt through the spring and the axel? The last set was welded, but the spring broke at the weld so thats an obvious weak point. I'm ready to get this boat on the river/bigger lake, but its too big to load into my truck bed.