lost an entire wheel and drum
I made a turn into a shopping center parking lot, looked back and saw one of my trailer wheels lying in the middle of the road. We have a 2011 Cougar half-ton 5th wheel. The brakes, including backing ...
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Hammerboy wrote:
You hand packers, how often do you have it done? Do you go by time or miles? This is something I've never done and don't want to experiment with either without someone experienced showing me first.
Dan
Watch a few videos on youtube, it's not that hard, honest. The trickiest part in my opinion is the castle nut.
After about 25,000 miles I took a look at my bearings, and found some heat-stains or whatever they're called on a few rollers, so I went to NAPA and got a new set for both wheels. I've put another 16,000 on since then? Probably will look at them again spring of 2018.
The actual packing is easy but messy. Get a tub of grease, scoop some into the palm of your left hand, and then scoop through the grease with the bearing raceway. Turn and repeat several times, until plenty of grease is jammed into the raceway. Sit that one down and cover with a shop towel, and do the next one. You want to keep dust and debris from blowing and getting stuck in the fresh grease, you'll have to clean it and start over if this happens.
