Wheel Bearing follow up
As a follow up to Poppy's 5th wheel post on greasing wheel bearings, my question is how often do you grease your wheel bearings. My Dexter book says 12 months or 12,000 miles. I think that is over...
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colliehauler wrote:
If you trade trailers often this should not be a problem. I've seen people sitting on the side of the road with bearing failure. That's not my idea of a (fun) vacation. I have bought a used trailer that was 7 years old that the bearings were almost dry.
Good point. When I have a new trailer, the first thing I do is remove the wheels and visually look at the bearings. So I make sure the bearings have good adequate lube from the factory. This gives me a baseline to proceed from.
Incidentally, I have never found a bearing in a new trailer, that was not adequately greased. But I keep checking anyway. When I stop checking, I know Murphy's 1st law will occur.
