โJun-19-2018 05:14 AM
โJun-27-2018 01:09 PM
time2roll wrote:
Last year I swapped my drums for disks and in the process replaced the bearings with the same low cost "junk" from China. Previous service was TEN years ago and probably 40,000 miles on the same bearings.
The point is if you carry a spare they will never fail ๐
โJun-27-2018 10:54 AM
โJun-27-2018 10:44 AM
Huntindog wrote:SoundGuy wrote:Lippert had them, my TT came with them. Dexter (last I looked) still makes them. They were considered a premium upgrade.
Just an observation BUT ... surely by now the RV industry could be using bearings that don't need any servicing at all, just as the automotive industry does. Sure, any car / truck bearing could fail but it's pretty rare, I've had but one bearing fail on all the vehicles I've ever owned for the last 50 years, and when it did fail it wasn't a matter of life or death, replace it now or else. It just got noisy so the service manager said to just bring the truck in at my convenience, in the meantime I could continue to drive it, no biggie ... so why are we still dealing with this nonsense with our trailers? Good grief, is it not time we can have tires that don't blow up at a moment's notice for no apparent reason and bearings that don't fail during the lifetime of the trailer?! :M
Around 2014 I lost a wheel when the sealed bearings failed. I wrote about it here at that time. I called Lippert and was told that they no longer made those axles or any parts for them. They offered me a buy one get one free deal on replacement axles. After looking around (The Dexter sealed bearings are very close to the same) I could not beat the deal they offered me. I really did not want the remaining axle since it was an orphan. So I ended up replacing my 5200# axles with 7000# axles at a very good price.
I always like to upgrade whenever I have a failure.
โJun-26-2018 08:40 PM
โJun-26-2018 07:09 PM
โJun-26-2018 05:01 PM
SoundGuy wrote:Lippert had them, my TT came with them. Dexter (last I looked) still makes them. They were considered a premium upgrade.
Just an observation BUT ... surely by now the RV industry could be using bearings that don't need any servicing at all, just as the automotive industry does. Sure, any car / truck bearing could fail but it's pretty rare, I've had but one bearing fail on all the vehicles I've ever owned for the last 50 years, and when it did fail it wasn't a matter of life or death, replace it now or else. It just got noisy so the service manager said to just bring the truck in at my convenience, in the meantime I could continue to drive it, no biggie ... so why are we still dealing with this nonsense with our trailers? Good grief, is it not time we can have tires that don't blow up at a moment's notice for no apparent reason and bearings that don't fail during the lifetime of the trailer?! :M
โJun-26-2018 04:25 PM
โJun-21-2018 07:02 AM
โJun-21-2018 06:38 AM
Turtle n Peeps wrote:I had no problem getting US-made ones here in Canada. I just told the industrial supply house that's what I wanted and they told me that's all they get and they arrived in under 2 days.deltabravo wrote:
TIMKEN.
Go to a bearing house and buy genuine made in USA Timken bearings/
Skip the made in China bearings.
Pretty hard to do now days.
โJun-20-2018 10:13 PM
deltabravo wrote:
TIMKEN.
Go to a bearing house and buy genuine made in USA Timken bearings/
Skip the made in China bearings.
โJun-20-2018 09:36 PM
โJun-20-2018 05:00 PM
โJun-20-2018 08:29 AM
ScottG wrote:myredracer wrote:
Best way to be 100% certain is to get the numbers off the bearings. Our axles are allegedly 4400 lbs and I had trouble finding the right bearings. Turns out the bearings are 5200 lbs (or maybe 6000 lbs, can't recall).
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Pretty sure those are all those axles are the same size bearings!
โJun-19-2018 09:16 PM