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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jmhartley11 wrote:
I repack the bearings on my 2008 Keystone Sprinter 5th wheel every spring regardless of how many miles I put on it the following year. I have a gooseneck cattle trailer I bought new in 1992 and only greased the bearings once which was last year. That's 26 years, and countless thousands of miles
I don't get it either. My flatbed has been basically all over the country, and I am sure it was babied by the folks I loaned it to. :B Because of all the info gleaned here, I got paranoid and yanked the hubs at about the 15 year mark. good as new in there. New grease and new seals and I am not planning on going there again.
When MY fifth wheel hit six years, I yanked those hubs. All was well in there.
It is all a mystery to me. :h
I repack the bearings on my 2008 Keystone Sprinter 5th wheel every spring regardless of how many miles I put on it the following year. I have a gooseneck cattle trailer I bought new in 1992 and only greased the bearings once which was last year. That's 26 years, and countless thousands of miles
I don't get it either. My flatbed has been basically all over the country, and I am sure it was babied by the folks I loaned it to. :B Because of all the info gleaned here, I got paranoid and yanked the hubs at about the 15 year mark. good as new in there. New grease and new seals and I am not planning on going there again.
When MY fifth wheel hit six years, I yanked those hubs. All was well in there.
It is all a mystery to me. :h
