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Barnes 4WD for components like spring saddles, heim joints if it helps.

Sure there is and it is significant provided the spring rate is corrrect for the load. Are you legitimately saying that you don't believe that the suspension will compress on one side of the trailer while extending on the opposite side? If so, we may have found the root of your misunderstanding.

Go to an offroad shop that lifts Jeeps, they will have a pile of control arms and will probably give them to you. Build/buy mounts and you're most of the way there

There is not an IFS truck that without thousands of dollars of modification, has the articulation of solid axle on a similar vehicle. Independent suspension on a trailer (true independent suspension) has radically more articulation than a solid axle leaf or torsion axle. The goal is to keep as...

No, and I won't be anytime soon. My hot water, cooking and heat are all LPG Because I like to take a real shower, actually cook stuff not just heat up a can of Beanie Weenies and having the cabin heated. LPG is inexpensive, energy dense and widely available. It also works when there has been...

If you "have to answer uncomfortable questions", do so only in the presence of and on the advisement of your Attorney. Do not spin the wheel of fortune. It is 2023 not 1964. Relying on a sympathetic response from someone unlikely to be sympathetic is a profoundly bad plan, in fact it is no plan...

But there are not millions of F150 owners willing to pay the ARB tax.

Because hydro-forming costs a metric shit ton of money, and every chucklehead in the world can find something to weld with? I agree with you though, and irrespective of function I find most of the aftermarket bumpers to be tragically ugly.

Push/drive a chisel/screwdriver/prying implement between the head and the pan, back the plug out with a wrench, using pressure from the pry. Use one of the commercially available repair kits, or pick your own plug , tap to the correct pitch. Pack the flutes on the tap with grease to catch the...

Correct me if I'm wrong, but this is for atv/utv only and does not apply to plated street legal veehickles

My winch, but mostly my recovery gear is a psychological woobie that gives me comfort just being there.

Wow, ambition AND skill, well done.

Not defending the dumb asses, but if you catch your house on fire frying a turkey do you get a bill from the Fire Department? Public Services are paid for with tax dollars, hundreds of millions of dollars worth of equipment and facilities and staff wages.

No, not at all. Computers are pretty reliable, code readers are inexpensive and prolific, most parts are plug and play. Who wants to give up fuel injection, and automatic transmissions that are reliable? I can build a carburetor in my sleep, you have to ask "Why?"? LOL, because they are shit...

Looks like a common ground lug, what all is connected back there?

You seem to want to just argue,so I'll just let you argue with yourself. Have a nice day.

There are way too many variables to even offer an educated opinion (not an engineer), but suspension is worthy of overbuilding if any part is.

Not at all. Gear in these cases increases safety, comfort, and mobility which are all pertinent and important to the "trip".

I don't think you have ever used or understand independent suspension or an articulated hitch on a trailer. The entire purpose of both is to allow the trailer to function without affecting traction in the tow vehicle and it works very well. The improvement in ride quality is a bonus as well as...

Independent suspension is absolutely worth the effort, as is (maybe more so) a proper articulated hitch. I wouldn't build an "overlanding" trailer without either one. Mine has Cruisemaster CRS2 and McHitch, super happy with both.