What's the fascination with trailer bearings?
So I've seen many, many posts over the years about checking hubs with IR guns for excessive heat. I've even seen posts where people check their hubs every stop. :E My question is why? I have never ...
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myredracer wrote:
Suggest going to a frame/axle/suspension shop with experience in TT bearings and ask them to explain what can go wrong with the Chinese bearings that we get in TTs. If lucky, maybe they have a failed bearing they can show you. Ignoring bearing inspection and servicing for long periods of time is like playing with fire.
For the minimal cost at a shop, can't see why there's so much resistance to getting a periodic brake and bearing inspection/repack. Cheap insurance... People spend tens of thousands on a TT yet balk at spending a couple hundred at a shop for a service and inspection.
Just another internet opinion.
Agree, and as I've said before, this is a good oppty to look over the brakes, and of course readjust them when all back together.
No matter where the country of origin, I do like to give the bearings a look over. I just re-use them if they look good.
The irony of a failed bearing for me personally, is that the only one I have had fail in the last thirty years, was one of the OE bearings in my Nissan Frontier. No idea where it was made, I didn't think to get the old bearing. Dealer replaced it for me.
