Posted by kcm.MN on April 03, 2020 at 08:36:57 from (174.219.147.34):
In Reply to: Day one of lock down posted by jon f mn on April 03, 2020 at 05:39:46:
Have never used a bearing packer.
We lost a bearing on the trailer while moving up here years ago. Broke down in the dark, after hours, and just across the street from a mechanic's shop....who just happened to be working late that night. He got the trailer pulled across the street into his garage, but found he did not have any more bearings that size. He ended up taking the bearings off of his own trailer and installing them on ours. Then, when our bearing failed, it bent the spindle. He took it off and re-welded it. Wouldn't let us pay for anything since he never used any new parts! Took him the better part of 3 hours to get us on the road again. And all that while his wife and infant child waited for him to finish for the evening.
Don't know what ever happened to his shop as once we finished moving (a couple years later), his garage was closed down. Wherever he is, I hope he somehow knows that there's a couple folks out there that think he's a genuine angel in the flesh!!
Anyway, he used a needle attachment on his grease gun and showed me how to get grease into every nook & cranny of the bearings. When I went to grease the bearings on the other 3 wheels, all of the original grease was still there......doing nothing. Just packed inside, and not a bit of it inside the actual bearings. Still trying to figure out why a trailer manufacturer in Ft. Worth couldn't figure out that grease needed to be IN the bearings.
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