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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agesilaus wrote: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
OP never stated they were Nev-R Lubes, someone asked if they were and everybody assumed the answer was yes.
I don't trust "permanently" lubed bearings, even in my vehicles. I've never had a car with the sealed bearings that DIDN'T eventually fail, requiring replacement.
IF the bearings were the repackable kind (I won't assume the are, I'm saying IF), this illustrates why I do annual inspections/maintenance. I'd rather spend a little time in my driveway doing preventive maintenance than hours stranded on the side of a highway.
