Wheel Bearing Maintenance

Turtle n Peeps wrote:

Bob Vaughn wrote:
What is the maintenance schedule for wheel bearings on 5th wheels and Travel Trailers? At what milage intervals should they be removed and repacked?

"I" check mine about every 7 years or so. I haven't "packed" them in about 14 years or so. I put about 5K a year on my trailer so about 30 to 35 thousand or so. The bearings always look fine. It's the brake magnets that I'm seeing that are worn out.

I use a good quality grease and use good quality bearings and forget about it after that. In the many trailers I have owned and towed in over 35 years I have never had a bearing failure.

After wasting my time for years going through the bearings every year, I adopted this strategy.
The yearly thing is just CYA stuff. They are the same technology that was used in cars and trucks for decades and they only got serviced when doing brakes.
I put about 40K on my Alko axles before servicing the bearings. At that point it was still a waste of time (they were perfect) and was totally uneeded.
I would make sure they are done correctly and then check them yearly for adjustment or roughness. After that, I would only sevice them at brake changes.