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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Sport45 wrote:laknox wrote:
I used them yearly on my old Komfort. No issues whatsoever. No grease leaking past the seals and, when I =did= replace the bearings, mechanic said I could have used the old ones, no problem. IIRC, they =were= Timkens as OEM, but I went ahead and replaced them anyway.
Lyle
I never suggest replacing good bearings. When you do, you are subjecting yourself to an “infant mortality” type failure. Good bearings will keep on being good until they are overloaded or allowed to run dry. Even the best new bearing has some small chance of a manufacturing defect that could lead to early failure.
Mine are nearly 12 years old, and I repacked them this spring, they looked great, and I am thinking they are surely China bearings in there, and they will remain in there. I have no intentions of changing them .
Headed for a summer long trip to Alaska in 2020, I will take along an extra set or two, grease etc, just in case it will be a long trip with a lot of miles .
I towed this summer in nearly 100 degrees, the TPMS showed the tires were running pretty cool ,not a lot of increase in temperature when warmed up, nothing to worry about. The sun side naturally was running a few degrees warmer. The hubs were barely warm. The bearing are running like they should ,and have been, as said, for nearly 12 years now.
