Confused about bearings
When you pack the bearing and put them in the races do you need to add more grease in there before putting the seal on or is that just a waste. Also I have heard when you put the castle nut on you tig...
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Lynnmor wrote:Ron3rd wrote:
If you have a Dexter setup, follow their procedure; you TORQUE the nut to something like 50 lbs THEN back it off to the next hole for the cotter pin. This seats the bearings and squeezes out excess grease. Dexter has the procedure on their website. You can also follow Jbarca's excellent tutorial with photos found on this website as a sticky.
This is the kind of wrong information that will get you into trouble. Trailer wheel bearings are to have a small amount of clearance and no pre-load. The procedure for adjusting wheel bearings has been the same for about a hundred years and folks still can't get it right.
Dexter's engineers are wrong? Check out Dexter's instructions and decide for yourself.
