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icepickjazz
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Apr 27, 2013

Smoked Bearing -- Spindle Damage - Axle Replacement??

Wheel bearing smoked on my trailer. I'm not sure how long it had been smoking, no one honked or alerted me. We were about 1 mile from storage lot when noticed smoke pouring from the wheel. I had a...
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icepickjazz
Explorer
Apr 28, 2013
GMT830 wrote:
Looking at the pics again the end of the shaft is rusted, the cap fell off? That outer bearing was definitely dry and started the failure chain.
No that rust just happened in the last 2 weeks. I haven't had a chance to look at it until this weekend. When I started the trip all seemed in order. Here's how it looked just after the failure was noticed.


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