Never Lube Bearings

I did mine 2 years ago when the trailer was 10 years old. Removed the hubs and took them to a machine shop with the new bearings. They charged $10 a hub to swap out the bearings, which I bought on line for ( not from Dexter) for $122 each. So I had about $525 in parts and labor plus my time. It was an all day job for me.

I replaced one of ours after it was a little loose. (about 60,000 miles) The next year another one was a little loose so I replaced the rest of them.

I have a 20 ton press and used varies spacers to get the first one out. I ground the race from the first one a little on the outside and used it to replace all of the new bearings.

One of the bearings had to be pressed in a tad to get the snap ring out. Other than that it was pretty straight forward.



Capn' Don

Pull your trailer and new bearings down and we will put it in our shop. After I point and you work about three hours your trailer will have new bearings.

Least expensive way is to pull the hubs your self and take them to an automotive shop with a big press. Order the bearings your self and supply them to the shop.

Ken

I replaced my originals after 7 years, I had to take them to a shop that had a 50 ton press to get the old ones out. I already had the snap rings out so all they had to do was press out the old ones and the new ones in. You have to press on the inner race to get them out so they will be shot after you get them out. They used a flat bar to push the new ones in until they where even with hub and one of the old bearings to push them the rest of the way so the inner race never had any pressure on it.

I used Dexter bearings for $140 each that I could have got the same China bearing from etrailer for $90. The shop only charged me $50 to change them.

Denny