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A quick few tips to get yourself out of a drama and continue enjoying your trip
Wheel bearings in your trailer last for years, or 6 months...
.Even pop the grease cap off too check for colour and water
.I carry a pair of pre-packed bearings in a tub of grease in my 4x4 even when not towing.
Sold one kit on the side of the road to a bloke who was in some trouble with a seized bearing.
Next time you replace your bearings, punch out the shells, cut out 5mm of each old shell, file off the dags.
Use these to drift your new ones in, but facing backwards.
The cut out section will allow you easily remove them as they can contract from the cut out section.
Then put them in your toolbox.
If you want to go one better and make changing a wheel bearing on the side of the a 10 minute job.
A new hub for a Holden/Ford are about $40.Or cheap as from a wrecker.
Clean and fit new packed bearings to it, fill the hub with grease. Bag it and stow.
Then you simply just need to remove the split pin and castle nut, take off the hub, wipe off all the old grease and slide your new hub on, and off you go.
Then when you have time, cold beer, and a shady tree, pull down the bad hub and put the other new pair of bearings left over in it
,One day you will be greatfull you did a bit of effort done at home with a cold beer in the shed.Other than on the side of crap road in the dusty heat.
Wheel bearings in your trailer last for years, or 6 months...
.Even pop the grease cap off too check for colour and water
.I carry a pair of pre-packed bearings in a tub of grease in my 4x4 even when not towing.
Sold one kit on the side of the road to a bloke who was in some trouble with a seized bearing.
Next time you replace your bearings, punch out the shells, cut out 5mm of each old shell, file off the dags.
Use these to drift your new ones in, but facing backwards.
The cut out section will allow you easily remove them as they can contract from the cut out section.
Then put them in your toolbox.
If you want to go one better and make changing a wheel bearing on the side of the a 10 minute job.
A new hub for a Holden/Ford are about $40.Or cheap as from a wrecker.
Clean and fit new packed bearings to it, fill the hub with grease. Bag it and stow.
Then you simply just need to remove the split pin and castle nut, take off the hub, wipe off all the old grease and slide your new hub on, and off you go.
Then when you have time, cold beer, and a shady tree, pull down the bad hub and put the other new pair of bearings left over in it
,One day you will be greatfull you did a bit of effort done at home with a cold beer in the shed.Other than on the side of crap road in the dusty heat.
