On 25 Feb, 20:30, Tom Woods wrote:
Does anybody have any sugestions as to where i might find a
replacement leaf spring for an old box trailer?

or perhaps a site that lists all leaf spring measurements so that i
can see if they match some sort of car?

I have been offered a free trailer but when went to pick it up found
that a spring is broken. Am trying to see if it is feasable to repair
it or if it would be cheaper to either buy a different second hand one
or replace the leaves with the indespension type units which i can
easily buy.

I am looking for a spring 1.5 inches wide, 18 inches from bolt centre
to centre with a radius in the centre or around 6 inches

Long time since I messed with leaf springs .. (used indespension units
on all recent builds) .. back in the days when I read Practical
Mechanics - there used to be firms that specialised in repairing leaf
springs ... try a google ?

If you don't want to crawl around a scrap yard, most agricultural
engineers will be used to fixing these - loads of farm kit still has
leaf springs.


I just did a simple Google ... and in 10 sec it returned 45,000
entries ... the first one is a UK firm that states it can provide
spares or rebuild any leaf spring ...
www.frmspares.co.uk/springs.aspx

so plenty of companies out there