Nasty Bearing Failure
After a 2 month stay at the Canadian border with the fifth wheel (2006 Cardinal TSL33) we headed home on the 14th of August. A stop at a rest area 45 minutes in to the journey was uneventful. Everyth...
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rjxj wrote:
How long had it been since the bearings were serviced or replaced?
There is no servicing for the NEV-R Lubes just replacing. You should check the wheels by jacking them up before the trip and doing the wheel shake test. A lot of people carry a spare hub with a new bearing already pressed in with them. They are known to fail catastrophically with little warning. Happened to us just north of SLC and I had to replace the brakes and get new bearings pressed in. It took three days and a lot of running around the area trying to find parts.
Someone flagged us down from a passing vehicle before we had a fire but the wheel was smoking.
BK
