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    Posted: 11 Jul 2013 at 1:57pm
I have read several posts praising the benefits of the FR axle riser kit for R-Pods.  Unfortunately, the price seems steep for such a simple kit.  Does anyone know of an aftermarket kit or has anyone fabricated a set for their R-Pod?

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Direct Link To This Post Posted: 11 Jul 2013 at 2:14pm
You could definitely fab your own if you have a decent welding and fab shop. they are just made out of heavy C channel steal with cross bracing welded in and holes drilled in the right place but I did not have the welding skills to complete the work myself.  This is not a good picture but it is the only one I have now. 


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Direct Link To This Post Posted: 11 Jul 2013 at 3:17pm
Scrape off a couple of jacks and you will have paid for the risers.
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: 11 Jul 2013 at 3:30pm
I would love to see someone on here start making and selling these things.  There is nothing to them really.  If I had the tools AND skills I would do it.  I think someone could make them, mark up a profit margin and undersell FR with no problem.  Plus there would be a market for them.

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Direct Link To This Post Posted: 11 Jul 2013 at 4:34pm
Liability,liability, liability. That's what we pay for
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: 11 Jul 2013 at 4:50pm
Yep.. my very insurance minded wife points out there only about a thousand or so things that could go wrong with them, none of which were a "failure" of the part, that you could/would be sued for, from the recipient dropping the heavy box on their tow, to the installer dropping the trailer off the jack stands.. etc etc etc etc etc.

see: pyroclaw disclaimer.

BTW: one of the FR/Pod reps that checks in on the FB group says 90% of pods come with them..
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: 11 Jul 2013 at 6:57pm
Thanks everyone for the photo and the comments.  I agree, fabrication would be a simple task, if you have the necessary equipment and steel stock.  I no longer have my welder nor do I have the steel stock, but I do have the skill and the cutting and boring equipment required.  Add in the cost of SS hardware, I doubt if I could replicate the FR product less expensively. 

Just a few observations.  My use of the term "axle riser" was inappropriate.  The risers are simply a pair of spaces between the axle and the trailer frame.  The rise is in the framework and body of the pod, not the axle. 

As for liability, personally installing risers is no different in terms of liability to installing a trailer hitch.  If FR risers should fail, FR could claim the failure was due to faulty installation, product abuse, etc.  Personal injury before or during installation is the installer's liability.  As furpod said, the manufacturer is only responsible for defects in design, material or manufacture.

Since the risers are only spacers, there is really no reason why they have to be 4" high.  From what I have been reading, perhaps a 2" or a 3" height would be better.

When I posed my question, I was hoping an after-market product might be available, but apparently that is not the case.  Can someone tell me what FR charges for the axle kit and shipping cost to the pod owner?  I am assuming all the necessary hardware is included.

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As for liability, personally installing risers is no different in terms of liability to installing a trailer hitch.  If FR risers should fail, FR could claim the failure was due to faulty installation, product abuse, etc.  Personal injury before or during installation is the installer's liability.  As furpod said, the manufacturer is only responsible for defects in design, material or manufacture. 

 10-4 I bought the hardware to tow my truck behind our Motorhome just the two pieces that bolted to my truck frame,over $300 made in Portland or, they said liability ,so was just going by what they said, seems a little high to me to.
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: 12 Jul 2013 at 12:28am
Personally I wish they were 6" instead of 4".
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: 12 Jul 2013 at 10:04am
Right on, Doug.

I just spent a week at an Alabama state park in which the sewer pipes were elevated on concrete pads and the camp sites had been slightly washed out. That was fun. Could only empty the gray tank half way until water flow ceased. Even in the "mountains" of Alabama water will not flow up hill. Maybe if the Pod had been built on an 18 wheeler flatbed chassis.Wink

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