Added Value of Bearing Repacking
Just completed replacing my bearings and seals, along with putting on new brake assemblies on all axles. My axles are E-Z Lube, but I have never used the system and preferred just removing and rep...
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A lot of folks do not think you have to check the bearings in a new trailer. As I have written in other posts, our current trailer four year old trailer was less than a year old when I decided to repack to check the amount of factory grease.
What I found was one of the castle nuts on an axle had about 300 lbs of torque on it. So much, in fact, that it took me and my adult son with a long extension and a cheater bar to break it loose.
Without doubt it would have led to a bearing failure at some point had I decided not to repack. Luckily we had not made a lot of trips in the trailer before I found it.
Yep, rubber gloves for me, too.
What I found was one of the castle nuts on an axle had about 300 lbs of torque on it. So much, in fact, that it took me and my adult son with a long extension and a cheater bar to break it loose.
Without doubt it would have led to a bearing failure at some point had I decided not to repack. Luckily we had not made a lot of trips in the trailer before I found it.
Yep, rubber gloves for me, too.
