skylark
I'm Awesome
This is from my dads travel trailer. Supposedly these bearings had been repacked recently.
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this is why you always check your wheel bearings.
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Yup....... Repacked with dirt and water...........
sewlow
Bitchin' Stitchin'
Oooh nooo! That ain't good!
If that was a boat trailer, & seeing as you're in Oregon, I'd say stop backing it so far into the salt-chuck!
But, that's a travel trailer? Ouch! Definitely not new!
I'd be investing in some 'bearing-buddies', if that was mine!
Dad had a boat trailer with the old Mopar style wheel bolts that had one side go on the 'right' way, but the other side had reversed threads. The 'wrong' way! The trailer had a 23.5' deep-V boat on it. 4000 lbs. worth.
4:30 am. Dad & I going salmon fishing. Traveling on a 4 lane highway @ 50mph.
Start to feel a weird vibration.
"Dad, you tighten up that hitch ball?"
"Yup."
"What's that vibration?"
"Crappy road."
No sooner had he said that, when the trailer dropped on the passenger side.
(Dad) "Ahhh ****!!!"
Sooo, he manages to get the whole rig pulled over to the side. I go to jump out of the truck, & as I do, look back at the trailer to see what was wrong.
Had one foot out, when I saw the wheel off of the trailer coming straight at me! Flying leap back into the truck. Nearly ended up on the driver's side! The wheel hit the open door so hard, it almost folded the door back on itself!
No fishing that day!
And...the ole man swapped out that stupid axle the next week!
Just one of my experiences with trailers. Most of 'em, not good!
Trailers...for what they are, they sure need a lot of maintenance!
If that was a boat trailer, & seeing as you're in Oregon, I'd say stop backing it so far into the salt-chuck!
But, that's a travel trailer? Ouch! Definitely not new!
I'd be investing in some 'bearing-buddies', if that was mine!
Dad had a boat trailer with the old Mopar style wheel bolts that had one side go on the 'right' way, but the other side had reversed threads. The 'wrong' way! The trailer had a 23.5' deep-V boat on it. 4000 lbs. worth.
4:30 am. Dad & I going salmon fishing. Traveling on a 4 lane highway @ 50mph.
Start to feel a weird vibration.
"Dad, you tighten up that hitch ball?"
"Yup."
"What's that vibration?"
"Crappy road."
No sooner had he said that, when the trailer dropped on the passenger side.
(Dad) "Ahhh ****!!!"
Sooo, he manages to get the whole rig pulled over to the side. I go to jump out of the truck, & as I do, look back at the trailer to see what was wrong.
Had one foot out, when I saw the wheel off of the trailer coming straight at me! Flying leap back into the truck. Nearly ended up on the driver's side! The wheel hit the open door so hard, it almost folded the door back on itself!
No fishing that day!
And...the ole man swapped out that stupid axle the next week!
Just one of my experiences with trailers. Most of 'em, not good!
Trailers...for what they are, they sure need a lot of maintenance!
