Advised not to repack bearings???
Two years ago, and with our previous trailer, we had a miserable and expensive bearing failure while 4k miles from home. At the time, we had buddy bearings and were under the impression that they did...
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fj12ryder wrote:Ignoring the facts won't make them go away.
Done.
Think about how it works. Look at the diagrams.
The old grease from the inside bearing is STLL in there.
You can see this for yourself. Pump more grease into one hub afer the first dirty grease exits... Keep pumping and be sure to have a lot of grease on hand... More dirty grease will emerge after a lot of clean grease. It has a long ways to travel thru the hub and outer bearing, but it is there.
I wish it wasn't so, as I now have this system, and it would be really nice if it worked the way they market it... And it can if you pump a LOT of grease in to totally purge the old out... But it would take so much grease EVERYTIME as to make it not practical IMO. It is cheaper and easier to just do a manual packing job, and avoid the risk of grease on the brakes.
