Just a random picture I came across today.
Broken u-bolts?
Judging by the wheels, it looks to be a 2500/3500.
Not sure what is going on with what appears to be the receiver that got shoved out the back.
Might have been an accident, judging by the state of the underside of the trailer and hitch.
Figure we can post towing disasters here to pontificate over...
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Ctech, GM used to have this little sentence at the beginning of every troubleshooting section..
the beauty of it I've remember it most of my life..
QUOTE " MANY TIMES A CLOSE VISUAL OBSERVATION WILL REVEAL THE SOURCE OF THE PROBLEM"
one thing I learned from working on machinery most of my adult life was to never prejudge where the problem originated or to guess what was wrong before someone took a look..
Still remember teaching arrogant azznozlle boss a lesson.
Boss tells me to go and put a new
alternator belt on bus 1000.
I go out, cut the old belt off and park the bus... generator light is on.
2 hours later my boss calls me in to shop office to say I didn't fix bus 1000..
I replied " you told me to replace the
alternator belt, you did not tell me to fix the problem."
for proof there is justice sometimes, my bosses boss was in the office and chewed my boss out for diagnosing from the office.
lesson in that is you can't diagnose simply by symptom or by the internet or phone
and that the internet will usually give you the worst case scenario as the most likely problem.
Reality is you actually have to do some investigation..
so in this case you probably need to look at the previous mechanics workmanship...