Some you have some absolutely fantastic setups. Here is my (very) humble contribution to this thread. Not sure if it’s how I should be doing things, but it’s how I’m doing things…
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5’X8’ sized trailer? do you have a ramp or just pull it down?
Yep. A 5x8 trailer kit from Northern Tool. There’s no ramp. I have a Dalmi electric stand that use to load / unload the kart. I then put the stand in the back of my 4Runner.
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Stealth got around to finishing my custom kart trailer, picked it up yesterday. Now it’s time to set it up… gonna start off with two 10’ e-trac rails longitudinal on the floor spaced so that the wheels of a Streeter Double stacker turned sideways will fit between.
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Flooring got delivered along with some acc. Got most of it finished today, here is where I’m at at the moment. Still need to get the flooring on the ramp and some angle alum for corner flashing.
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I bought a new race trailer and it’s a bit rusty! How would you treat this? I want to grind the rust off and spray over bare metal with rustoleum, but my grinder is really small. It has all different sanding bits, but they seem too tiny for big areas of rust. I don’t want to take the leaf springs all the way off cause I’m lazy. Any advice?
Looks like surface rust. I’d hit it with some rust converter and then some black spray paint and send it.
I used a lot of this on my Fiat restoration.
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That is pretty normal. Some spray on undercoating would be my choice.
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Wow I did not know this stuff existed. I gotta buy some of this.
@Brianf60 I gotta either convert the rust or grind if off before I spray undercoating, right?
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The rust converter would be the best. Grinding would be too much work.
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Not sure if I’ve ever posted my trailer in here but this is kind of what we’ve settled on for a setup over the years with many trailers. Similar to a lot of what you have done.
The key is having the platforms similar in height to the stand so I can load and unload the kart by myself since I’m usually going to practice/test solo.
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@tjkoyen I used the Eastwood products on my trailer. Thanks for the tip. I put on too much encapsulator in the last step, so it didn’t adhere properly, but overall I’m quite happy with the outcome.
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For situations like this I would try Blaster surface shield. I sprayed this product on a set of steel snow tire rims and it almost makes the metal look painted. The amount of effort to prepare this for paint is not worth it. You just want to stop further rusting.