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Location: Westland, Mich. | i just finished my winterization. in the spring when i went to repack my trailer bearings i found that water had been in the hubs all winter and the bearings had rusted. i had to replace all the bearings and vowed never to put the bearing service off in the fall. i'm glad i did because when i pulled the hubs today i found water. if it had sat all winter i'd be looking at a new set of bearings again next year. i'm now contemplating liquid hubs for next season. take a look now and posibly save yourself some cash in the spring. you'll still have to replace the seals, but you may save yourself a set of bearings. |
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Good idea. Thanx for the heads up Jake. |
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| I have always serviced my trailer bearings in the fall befor I put up the boat for the winter for just that reason. Next spring, I'm ready to go. |
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Location: Milw, WI | What system on your hubs are you using now?
Why is water getting in? |
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Location: Westland, Mich. | my e-z loader came with "reliable" hubs. they are very similar to bearing buddies i had thought about putting bearing buddies on, but now feel that they are too similar. i'm planning to go with a liquid hub next year. i'll probably run what i have now for most of the season and then change over in the late summer/early fall. |
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Location: Milw, WI | How are the seals at the back of the hub?
Where is the water getting in?
Have used bearing buddies on all my boat trailers, and some with out , and I have never found any water in the hubs or bearings.
If you put in to much grease it can and will leak out the seals and I guess water would then get in, the reverse way.
Hot hubs , cool water.
(I am as I type, waiting on seals for a old cargo trailer I am repacking.)
Is this a bunk trailer?
I ask because you need to be in the water deeper than I do with my roller.
My hubs never enter the water.
For you to make the switch to the liquid filled hubs, your hubs and such must be perfect.
So it might not hurt to figure out why the water is in there in the first place.
Maybe just bad seals in the back.
Edited by Richfish 11/21/2003 1:26 PM
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Location: Westland, Mich. | i replaced the seals with the new bearings in the spring. they left perfect wear marks on each spindle.
i think the water is coming in either from the vent hole where the excess grease escapes (water may suck in when the wheel hits the water and cools after a drive)or from a bad fit between the hub and the grease cap.
the reliable set up allows excess grease to escape from the inner end of the spindle it wont be forced past the seal.
yeh, it's a bunk there's no way to float the boat without submerging the whole tire.
i think the only extra work that i will have, installing liquid hubs will be plugging that vent hole on the spindle side. |
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Location: Milw, WI | Sounds like you got a plan.
You should write about how the job goes.
I and I hope others would like to here about it.
I have not installed the ones that you are talking about.
But have seen the LL. ones done, a little like work, some drilling and tapping. |
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heads-up on winter bearing service