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Trailer hub slinging grease

Posted By: chas1

Trailer hub slinging grease - 06/01/18 06:57 PM

Academy is carrying a trailer hub kit by Smith, has anyone use this, I’m slinging Grease and this looks to be cheaper than having them repacked and re-done, .... $50 each for new kit at Academy
Posted By: IslandJim

Re: Trailer hub slinging grease - 06/01/18 09:32 PM

Gee, that's only about double what Redneck Trailer Supply gets for them, if you don't mind driving 70 miles to Arlington! If you're gonna put 'em on yourself, you'll learn a handy skill. Everyone with a trailer should know how to re-pack wheel bearings. While you're there, buy a spare hub, pack it with grease, plastic bag it, and carry it in your truck, for those road-side oh-ohs. You'll be ready. Jus' sayin'. If you already know all this, just disregard. IslandJim
Posted By: Bob Landry

Re: Trailer hub slinging grease - 06/01/18 10:33 PM

If you're slinging grease, you have a bad rear seal on the hub. That happens a lot with people trying to over grease Buddy Bearings. They also go bad if the hub has run dry for a while.
Seals are cheap. Pick up a set at any trailer place, a can of bearing grease and you're done for less than $20, plus you'll know how to do it
Posted By: ChuChu1

Re: Trailer hub slinging grease - 06/02/18 06:53 PM

Originally Posted By: Bob Landry
If you're slinging grease, you have a bad rear seal on the hub. That happens a lot with people trying to over grease Buddy Bearings. They also go bad if the hub has run dry for a while.
Seals are cheap. Pick up a set at any trailer place, a can of bearing grease and you're done for less than $20, plus you'll know how to do it


This! Search you tube for a video on packing bearings.
Posted By: chas1

Re: Trailer hub slinging grease - 06/02/18 07:10 PM

Anyone in Fort Worth That would do them for me?
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