Bearings and bad decisions......
A cautionary tale of wheel bearing tragedy.... Learn from my bad decision.... I was doing my pre-trip walk around this morning as we prepared to get back on the road. I noticed a missing wheel bea...
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4x4ord wrote:
We have a tandem axle stock trailer that we don't use a whole lot. We've been running it without a bearing cap about the last 5 or 6 years .... maybe I should replace it. My guess in your case is that the bearing failed causing the loss of the cap.
What I would have done in your situation on the side of the road is this: I would have loosened the rim with the failed hub; jacked that axle high enough to get the good axle off the ground. Then I would have blocked between the good axle and the frame; removed the tire and rim on the bad axle; removed the Jack, letting the weight of the trailer onto the good axle and carried on. This has worked for me with a flat tire and no spare.
We never found the missing tire/rim/hub.... The brake backing plate was dragging on the road.
