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Hey guys, Kevin here with "etrailer" and today we're gonna be taking a look at the Dexter Trailer Springs Over-Under Conversion kit. One of the common questions we get here at "etrailer" is how can I raise the height of my trailer so that it can ride more level with my tow vehicle or so that I can add on some bigger tires Dexter's come up with a solution for this depending on the size of your axle and that is their over-under conversion kit which is going to swap your axle and your leaf springs so that you can lift up that trailer just a little bit. So here it is, our completed setup. We have our U bolts going through holding our axle to our leaf spring that is now on top sitting on our new spring seat. One other thing to keep in mind when you are trying to swap up to get those bigger tires is that you're gonna also need to double check the space you have with your fender and then also the body of the trailer itself. So as you see here, if we tried to really size up we really couldn't go with anything that's wider, we'd only be able to go with something that's just a little bit taller wheel wise.
And then on top of that you also are gonna be changing the center of gravity for the trailer. So as you start raising that trailer up it's gonna be a little bit less stable. So you're gonna wanna make sure that you go ahead and pick up one of more rides cross members which is going to mount on the center hangar and it's just gonna kind of give you some extra support, it's gonna run straight across. They also have ones that come with equalizers as well if you decide you wanna upgrade your suspension. So what this kit basically does is just flips your leaf springs up above your axle and what that's gonna give you is the diameter of your axle plus the height of your spring stack.
So you can look anywhere from three to five inches usually with one of these kits just based on what your axle is and then also the springs stack. So before picking out your kit, you're gonna wanna make sure that you measure the diameter of your axles. You can use a caliper to get 100% for sure measurement on it or you could really just take your tape measure up to it. It's really quite a difference between two and three eighths and three inches. So if you look at it, you can kind of really just eyeball it with your tape measure, that way you make sure you get the correct kit.
As far as installation goes, it is very messy. Your suspension, your leaf springs, your axles, all that is can be collecting all kinds of road rhymes. So definitely wear some gloves wear some eye protection if you get under here to hammer out those bolts or really do anything under 'cause there's a lot of mud and stuff that just gets up on there and it's gonna fall down and get in your face, it's gonna get all over your hands. But other than that it really just requires just a little bit of patience and a lot of planning to make sure that when you lift up your trailer that you're properly supporting the weight of the load. So the first step in our installation we're gonna have to remove our wheels.
I already have our trailer lifted up so I'm gonna use an impact gun if you want to go ahead and break off those lug nuts before you lift the trailer up just to make it a little bit easier 'cause then you don't have to worry about the tire kind of moving on you. So the next step is going to be lifting up your trailer. That way you have enough room so you can kind of drop your axles down a little bit because we are gonna have to take off our leaf springs so that we can flip them up to the top of the axle. Now when you do this you wanna make sure that you're looking by the frame and that you also have a bottle jack or maybe a floor jack, something like that that you can easily kind of slip in under the axle 'cause you are gonna wanna have to move that up and down just a little bit to kind of play around with the leaf springs and getting everything into place. So I find the forward jack usually the better option, but we're gonna go ahead and get this supported and then we can start taking out our leaf spring. So now that we have our axle supported, we can go ahead and start taking apart our suspension here, pulling out our leaf spring. And while we're doing this we're going to want to pull from our nut side. We don't want to try and spin the bolt side because that bolt actually has teeth in it and it bites into the shackles strap. And especially on this kit Dexte