Nev-r-lube axles on my Alpenlite
Lots of wheel bearing posts but few addressing the bearings I have. At 5 years, I have a total of 1,260 miles on my 5'ver. That would be 1,200 from the Western RV in Yakima to San Clemente and...
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we had a failure of a sealed bearing (LCI) earlier this year which caused the wheel to cock on the axle & the tire to scrap on the shock mount. When we got stopped we found the hub cavity on fire also... fun day. I did the periodic recommended checks per the manufacturers bulletin & all seemed well. The only other thing I can think of to do is to use an infrared gun to check hub temperatures whenever you stop to see if there's one or more bearings with high temperatures.
There have been others that have experienced failures of these never-lube type bearings. From what i understand the seals fail causing loss of lubrication. The ones on my axles were non-serviceable so you had to replace the entire cartridge. A couple of years after our trailer was made LCI stopped using the ones we had so not sure if parts would be available or not. One other item, in our case the axles were made for these bearing cartridges and you could simply remove the cartridge and replace it with standard wheel bearings.
We had about 15000-20000 miles on our trailer when we had the bearing failure.
There have been others that have experienced failures of these never-lube type bearings. From what i understand the seals fail causing loss of lubrication. The ones on my axles were non-serviceable so you had to replace the entire cartridge. A couple of years after our trailer was made LCI stopped using the ones we had so not sure if parts would be available or not. One other item, in our case the axles were made for these bearing cartridges and you could simply remove the cartridge and replace it with standard wheel bearings.
We had about 15000-20000 miles on our trailer when we had the bearing failure.
