Posted by RBoots on August 29, 2016 at 19:20:38 from (173.241.113.102):
Last Thursday night after work, 2 buddies and myself left for Copper Harbor after work hauling my one buddies' 19' boat. Plan was to drive the 10ish hours straight thru to Copper Harbor and launch the boat into Lake Superior when we got there. It would work out that we would arrive about daybreak. The plan was to then take the boat the 2 hours across Lake Superior to Isle Royale and spend Friday and Saturday fishing on the coast of the island, and head back to mainland Sunday morning and drive home as soon as we were loaded up. Ah, but that's not how things worked out. We were about 2 1/2 hours into our trip and my buddy that was driving happened to notice smoke rolling from a boat trailer wheel bearing in the headlights of a passing car. We got out and checked it, and it was HOT. He had packed the bearings before we left, but that was a moot point now. We were 4 miles from the town (village?) of Indian River, so we dragged it to the State Park and spent the night, it was 10:30 PM. We were on our way to the parts store there in Indian River by 6:30 AM, they opened at 7:00. We pulled it apart in their parking lot and went inside to see what they had, which wasn't alot. We did have to buy a file to file off the burr on the spindle where the seal rides, and the burr where the bearing slides over the spindle. Our problem was that the inner race had broke in two. The parts store happened to have a little trailer wheel bearing kit with a seal (a cheap Chinese set, but the only option). They actually had a speedi sleeve to fix where the seal rides as well, so we knocked that on and packed the bearings and got everything all set and were on our way by 9:30. We had to do a lot of filing on the underside of the spindle to get the speedi sleeve where it would go on without ruining it. So we unfortunately didn't get to Copper Harbor until 7:30PM Friday night, at which time we originally were planning to have already been on the island. By now we pulled the trigger on going to the island, we just weren't going to be able to go without turning around and heading straight back, so we got a spot at the state park for the next 2 nights and spent Friday night fishing and Saturday exploring the northern tip of the Keweenaw and fishing all of the lakes there. All of these pictures were taken from the Brockway Mountain Drive on the way to Copper Harbor. Didn't see ANY tractors, I think it just takes too much to get anything up that far that isn't absolutely necessary, mostly just logging equipment. Thanks for looking, I'll post the rest of the pictures tomorrow night, part 2.
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