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Well let us know how they hold up in salt water, I am considering up grading the axle on my old Load Rite and I may switch to discs even though the drums have given me adequate life span due to the fact that the boat is moored all season. Drums do have certain advantages but discs are easier to service. On thing I'd like to see is a drum brake designed with a drum removable from the hub/studs, like old school American cars with rear drive had. You could (as long as it wasn't rusted on tight) remove the wheel, and release the parking brake and the drum would come off the studs. If they designed trailer brakes like that (as some styles of disc brakes are designed, with a removable disc and separate hub) you would not have to take off the bearing nut and retainer to service the brakes. We used to put a nice coat of wheel bearing grease on the hub and inner mounting surface of the drum on our old school rear drive cars and you could easily remove the drum without trouble. I still do the same thing with the trailer rims, I put a nice coat of OMC/Bombardier triple guard grease on the mount area of the drum and the back side of the wheel mount area and I have never had a problem getting the rims off. Same thing with both of my Jeeps, they have rear disc brakes with a drum brake for the parking brake, and if you put grease on the hub when servicing the brakes, the discs will come right off next time. If you don't well then you're in for some work.
Some salt water trailers I see here are a horror show of corrosion. All it takes is a little time and grease.....
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88 Four Winns 200 Horizon
4.3 OMC Cobra-4bbl
2002 Walker Bay 10/2012 Suzuki 2.5
2008 Walker Bay 8
1998 Jeep Grand Cherokee 4.0/Selectrac
2007 Jeep Grand Cherokee 5.7 Hemi/Quadradrive II
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