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It looks like some of those places where it mounts have been cracked or broken for a while, note the rust or dull metal. The shiny parts are where it was rubbing metal to metal. Its hard to say but it looks like the metal near the welds broke for some reason. Hope that Ranger can help you out.

Good Luck
...Jamie

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2004 F-350 Dana 60

Hi Jamie. I had the trailer tongue replaced last year at the dealership. I also had them rotate a trailer tire. They also fixed a live well pump. They were working on my boat trailer for at least an hour to two hours. They never mentioned anything about the welds or brackets.

I am pretty clueless about these things or I would have checked. 20/20 is hindsight. I will check this in the future.

Apparently this has happened to other Ranger owners. I was not aware of this until yesterday.....

It looks like a few others have had the torsion axle brackets break. Most blame the trailer mfg. for improper design of the connection between the bracket and the frame.

I agree that from the pictures it looks like the failure occurred over time.

Good luck getting them to perform on the warranty!

http://www.tidalfish.com/forums/show...-Eye-on-Yours!
http://www.fiberglassrv.com/forums/f...ers-31032.html

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Did you contact Ranger Boats at (870) 453-2222 and ask for customer service or contact the dealership where you purchased the boat , because having owned several Rangers have always found them wiling to at least listen to complaint especially one as serious as this . Ranger is the first Bass Boat maker to build all of their trailers in house and have actually contributed to the overall design of the majority small craft trailers be sold today . I would call and ask to speak to the Trailer division Manager , might be worth a try .
Greggd

Hi Greg. Ranger is not helpful. They offered a 1,000.00 discount towards the price of a new trailer. A brand new replacement trailer from them, for my boat, is 6,000 dollars. I spoke nicely to a manager in the warranty department and he would not budge. He said my trailer is out of warranty and it is their good will to offer a 1,000 discount. Never mind the welds are shitty and the axle they used had problems from the get go. He admitted there has been problems like the one I had. Apparently other owners had problems with their 2005 axles and had to get them replaced. As far as I can tell Ranger never did a recall or made any effort to contact owners to get the parts replaced.

I told him that someone could have been killed or hurt form my incident. His response was basically no one did so what 's the matter......

It seems like the boat owner had to contact them first to get the ball rolling. If they told me about the problem, or to be on the lookout, I would have taken care of the axle years ago. I am more mad at Ranger for not putting the word out versus bad parts and welds. My insurance should cover most of the trailer. Still waiting to her from them.

I served 4 years in the Marines and the past 16 years in public safety. I willingly put my life on the line every day I go to work for the past 20 years. I never thought driving my boat to a lake I was doing the same thing to my family, others and I. There is a whole thread on this topic at bassboatcentral.com in the general forum discussion...

I will never buy a Ranger again. I will never recommend Ranger to anyone.

Can't blame you at all. It's service after the fact that sets apart the great companies from the do-what-it-takes-to-get-by companies.


Herb

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What a sick feeling that must have been...So the boat is ok? I'll be lookin at mine!

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