How many wheel bearing do you have that require packing??

Posted by JDseller on July 28, 2012 at 20:32:51 from (208.126.196.144):

JD2ACWD posted below about tires. Another thing we have is the wheel bearing/hubs those tires go on. So think about how many bearing you have that should be packed and adjusted.

Thirty years ago I bought a brand new J&M eight ton running gear to put a gravity box on for fertilizer. I was doing a good bit of custom no-till planting back then. Most of the guys wanted dry starter fertilizer in the row so we would just go and get it in the gravity wagon. It had hydraulic auger to load the planter boxes. Just about on the last field out of more than a 1000 acres all over the place, the rear wheel fell off of the new J&M running gear. I checked it and it did not have any grease in it. I do mean ZERO. I check the other hubs and they too where all dry. It had been assembled at the factory with out any grease. I never checked it as it was brand new. I was buying 2-3 of these gears each year so I check the others I bought that year and they had grease in them. We usually hauled 6-8 ton of fertilize at road speeds as the wagon pulled well. Thinking about how that wheel could have came off on the road at speed really sent a chill up my back.

So when planting was all over I decided to check all of those type of hubs on everything I owned. So my oldest son and I removed an washed out the old grease on every wheel bearing on the place. While we had them apart I drilled all of them so they had grease zerks on them for the future. We went through 10 cases of good tube grease filling all of the hubs back up. The real pain was I did not have any type of power grease gun so that was all pumped out by hand.

Here is rough count by memory of how may wheel hubs we did:

12 gravity wagons x 4 = 48
18 flat bed wagons x 4= 72 (lots of little bales)
five tractors x 2 = 10
all implements(guess) 20 (disk, chisel plow etc.)

So that was over 150 sets of wheel bearings we cleaned/checked/repacked.

How many do you guys have???? Does that make you think about all of the potential bearing/seal issues a guy could have??

Replies:

• Re: How many wheel bearing do you have that require packi... Dean 05:52:46 07/29/12 (0)
• Re: How many wheel bearing do you have that require packi... wilson ind 05:34:28 07/29/12 (2)
  • Re: How many wheel bearing do you have that require packi... The tractor vet 07:35:41 07/29/12 (1)
    • Re: How many wheel bearing do you have that require packi... wilson ind 09:06:38 07/29/12 (0)
• Re: How many wheel bearing do you have that require packing? Erik Ks farmer 05:05:51 07/29/12 (0)
• Re: How many wheel bearing do you have that require packi... wally_mi 03:32:50 07/29/12 (1)
  • Re: How many wheel bearing do you have that require packi... JDseller 09:28:23 07/29/12 (0)
• Re: How many wheel bearing do you have that require packi... Dick2 02:12:15 07/29/12 (0)
• Re: How many wheel bearing do you have that require packi... Billy NY 21:29:12 07/28/12 (0)
• Re: How many wheel bearing do you have that require packi... 4020deereboy 21:09:22 07/28/12 (0)
• Re: How many wheel bearing do you have that require packi... Mike in Mn. 21:07:45 07/28/12 (0)
• Re: How many wheel bearing do you have that require packing? dave2 20:34:19 07/28/12 (2)
  • Re: How many wheel bearing do you have that require packing? JDseller 20:55:35 07/28/12 (1)
    • Re: How many wheel bearing do you have that require packing? dave2 21:08:13 07/28/12 (0)

Add a Reply Name: E-Mail: Subject: Comments: Optional Link URL: Link Title: Optional Image URL: Optional Video Title: Optional Video URL: Advanced Posting Options Email Notification: If you check this box, email will be sent to you whenever someone replies to this message. Your email address must be entered above to receive notification. This notification will be cancelled automatically after 2 weeks.   Advanced Posting Tools   Upload Photo  Select Gallery Photo  Attach Serial # List  Return to Post

TRACTOR PARTS	TRACTOR MANUALS

We sell tractor parts!  We have the parts you need to repair your tractor - the right parts. Our low prices and years of research make us your best choice when you need parts. Shop Online Today. [ About Us ]