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Just got new trailer tent. On packing up this week the jockey wheel broke up when I wound it up and tightened it .

The damage is somewhere at the top of the shaft. The winding hex at the top came loose and the wheel and shaft dropped out leaving me with the hex at the top, and some nylon and steel washers.

This is a new jockey wheel. I had hooked the trailer up to the car for the return journey, pulled up the whole shaft of the jockey wheel and clamped it making sure the wheel was alongside the towing shaft of the trailer. It all broke apart when I did a final tighten of the windup on the jockeywheel, as if something snapped.

Has anyone got any idea what has happened? Is this a manufacturer fault? - or something I did wrong? (I bought the unit - a Camplet - new from Camperlands last weekend)

Sorry - forgot. Further to the above.....

Does anyone know how to repair it, if it is possible??

Hi Jeff

They usually are just made of two parts with a screw drive to raise/lower the wheel,but I think you have a manufacturing fault there, I wouldn't even try a repair. Jockey wheels take some hammer, which is why they are so heavily built.

I'd take it straight back to Camperlands and get a new one. If the tell you they need to order one get them to lend you one off a display unit.

Cheers

Paul

Thanks Paul.

I have had chance to have a much closer look this morning and it seems as if there is a roll pin which is driven through both sections which has sheared. Does this make sense? If this is all that's wrong can these be purchased easily??

Usually the roll pin holds the mechanism to the handle, if thats all thats broken its easily replaced. Just knock out the old bits with the new one.

Cheers

Paul

Just to put the record straight, I called Camperlands and they said they will send me a complete replacement jockey wheel.

However seems a shame to junk this one. Does anyone know where you can buy roll pins from. I have used them before on brake pads, but they come in the packs!

Don't you have an ironmonger / hardware store nearby? Not B&Q or Focus but a proper ask at a counter one.

Check your yellow pages, if its anything like the one in Hull here they will sell single pins.

Cheers

Paul

I have just spoken to towcraft who put me on to Indespension - a NATIONAL trailer company. They DO NOT supply or have the roll pins and would not know where to get them from.

I am now convinced that this is CHINESE - and we no longer have the technology, just the landfill sites!!

I'll try some local hardware shops!