Got a long 2 week trip coming up with my wife and our two children.  I feel pretty confident on the fix for now and am going to go camping!  wish us luck and thanks all for the help.

LOL Ain't that the truth.. 

Offgrid, Do you think the 5" U bolts would be long enough, or do you think go like you did with the 6" and cut them off.   Another one please, did you use lock washers or the flat ones that come with the bolt as a kit?

Thanks

either way i appreciate everyones help and input.  Ive sourced a place to buy some angle iron this afternoon.  Going to go find some Square U bolts today as well.  Tommorrow i'll bring the trailer down to my dad's shop.  He's an experienced semi retired auto body mechanic with years of experience straightening frames from auto accidents.  I've learned a ton from him over the years.  He's fully confident we can straighten the axle back into alignment and then reinforce it.  

I'll take some pictures of the process and post up our progress.  Wish us luck and keep on podding!

exactly.

I think that is likely one of the reasons the 17x and 18x models are disappearing and the 19x and 20x models which, if I understand correctly, do have a wider frame and not as much cantilever on the axle are being sold. Hopefully, the bending axles will not be an issue with them.

This is the link to where the axle reinforcement mod starts:

Look for a shop that does trailers or lager trucks. If you do it yourself, I am not sure how you would set the toe adjustment, mine was an .5 inch out. The shop that did mine put small bends all the way across instead of one big one in the middle. It was about $250.

Here is my trailer being aligned.

Here is the pull wagon I built for camping, just to show my over kill sickness.

Good deal.  I filled out a warranty claim with Lippert today.  Will call them later this afternoon and see what they say.  Looks like some have had luck with them replacing the part under warranty while others haven't.  Figured i'd try my luck at that first.

I've spend a good 20-30 minutes searching the forum for your version of the fix offgrid.  if you happen to have a link to your post to point me in the right direction that would be awesome.  I'll keep searching. i'm sure i'll find it!  If i replace the axle I want to reinforce it for sure.

Makes sense,  I read StephenH his fix in his mods.  u bolting a piece of angle to the axle.  You guys think it will work with my existing axle or i'd have to order a new one?  if i order a brand new axle i'm going to do the widened angle iron mounting fix in the video above.  if i can get away with just adding angle to my axle and you think it will work i'll give that a go.  seems simple and cheap.  I'll post some pix of my axle in a bit.

i've ran it by my buddy who's a welder fabricator as well as the other fixes posted and he seems to think this is the most simple and easy fix.  he also thinks we should do this fix with my existing axle and weld new wider mounting brackets onto my existing axle.   He thinks widening the stance on the existing axle will fix the flex that is happening to cause the wheel to sag.  i guess worst case scenario if it didn't solve it with my existing axle i could then re enforce with the piece of angle the full length of the axle or order a new axle with the widened frame mounts.