What is Normal Brake Wear?
I have a 2015 Crossroads Rushmore Springfield 5th-wheel. (36-foot with dual axles.) I had the wheel bearings repacked, brake wear checked, brakes adjusted, and tires rotated at 7,500 miles (at Les Sch...
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fj12ryder wrote:CarnationSailor wrote:Well, if they're trying to get that past you it would make you wonder how much other stuff they also made up. Total BS.
myredracer:
LS said it was prudent to replace the bearings with the hubs because the old bearings and the old hubs would have had mating wear grooves, and that the new hub would have none; hence, the old bearings wouldn't fit well with a non-grooved hub. Anybody know if this is true?
Wheel bearings have an outer and an inner race, the rollers turn against those surfaces. The hub only holds the outer race in place.
I may be remembering their explanation incorrectly because I have found on the web some advise that it may be safest to replace both the hubs and the bearings together. Not sure exactly what LS said, but it did make sense to me at the time.
