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  1. l008com

    Dust Cap Woes

    Update: This is crazy, but I think the welding worked! I just tacked each cap on in two spots. I drove all the way to the boat ramp and all the way home. Which is only about 8 miles each way (16 total). But previously, both caps would start to back out after just ONE mile. AND both hubs were...
  2. l008com

    Dust Cap Woes

    So tonight I tack-welded the caps on! It felt like an absurd thing to be doing. HOWEVER when I was done, I went for a 5.5 mile test drive and when I was done, the caps were all still on tight. And I did touch both hubs, they were barely warm. Remember that last time I went for a boat ride...
  3. l008com

    Dust Cap Woes

    The grease I used is some marine grease that is specifically rated for use in trailer axles among other things. And I'm sure theres water in there now, the cap ejected wednesday night and it rained thursday morning. And regarding the measurements, I agree using a ruler isn't super accurate...
  4. l008com

    Dust Cap Woes

    I was measuring the I.D. of the hub last night to confirm the size. Theres a lot of perspective here because the camera was so close so it looks like its much less than 2" but its actually right around 2". Yes there are just simple metal caps, no fittings or anything. They pop right off. I...
  5. l008com

    Dust Cap Woes

    Both hubs are freshly re-tightened just right so they spin freely but have zero rattle in them. No trailer brakes, I drove 1 mile on smooth back roads where the fastest I was going would have been 25 to 30 MPH and both sides had partially backed out in that distance. I made sure they were...
  6. l008com

    Dust Cap Woes

    Its definitely not too much grease, you can tell just by looking, its not jammed in there. There are no grease fittings on these hubs so I just squeeze a bunch of it in there. But theres plenty of air space.
  7. l008com

    Dust Cap Woes

    So if I were somehow packing the hubs wrong, what possible "wrong" ways to do it could cause this? Too little grease? Too much grease? Those are the only two options I can think of really.
  8. l008com

    Dust Cap Woes

    Where can I get rubber ones? I'm ready to use rubber ones and a pair of hose clamps at this point, and then in a few years I'll replace the axle and hubs with something nice and new. But this is madness.
  9. l008com

    Dust Cap Woes

    First boat ride of the year today. I got everything ready, and right before I hit the road, I got a rubber mallet and tapped both caps on nice and tight. I hopped in and started driving. I stopped exactly 1 mile down the road. These are suburban roads so the speeds were probably 30 mph tops...
  10. l008com

    Old 2-Cycle Mercury Oil Leak

    Ok so I'm thinking I might take the carbs off and try to rebuild them myself, but this also really feels like a Winter project. In the meantime, I went for my first ride today and it took a LONG time to get the motor running. It would die at low RPMs. So I could start it with a little throttle...
  11. l008com

    Old 2-Cycle Mercury Oil Leak

    If its also smokier than normal at low speed, is that also an indicator that its the float valves?
  12. l008com

    Old 2-Cycle Mercury Oil Leak

    I had a post I started about this last year but I wanted to start fresh. The motor is a 1989 Mercury 90HP outboard, 2-cycle 3-cylinder For the last few years, it seems to have a slow oil leak. Slow enough that the tank isn't running low or anything, but fast enough that theres always oil...
  13. l008com

    Dust Cap Woes

    I agree, it doesn't make sense. They're so tight when installing that half of them get destroyed and I have to go grab another one. Yet as tight as they are, driving about 20 miles pops them right off. It doesn't really make sense.
  14. l008com

    Dust Cap Woes

    We've had this trailer for 30+ years and only recently did this start happening. Recently meaning last few years but also I barely use the boat these days so it's been maybe the last dozen or so trips. If the issue was that I somehow packed the grease in wrong, and the hub was overheating...
  15. l008com

    Dust Cap Woes

    The craziness continues.... First off, the grease that squeezed out was just a little residue that got on the inside of the hub when I topped it off. There is plenty of space inside the cap. Also I'm not doing the same thing over and over. I keep changing it up but still get the same results...
  16. l008com

    Dust Cap Woes

    I haven't spent anything on adhesive. On caps, since this problem started I've probably gone through 8 caps? The caps are super cheap but the issue is more, they fall off right away so I end up putting my exposed hubs underwater so if I just keep throwing cheap caps on, I'm going to ruin my...
  17. l008com

    Dust Cap Woes

    Here's what I did. I don't know if it's going to work, and I suspect most of you aren't going to like it. But I feel like I was out of options. I took my last unused cap, I got it started.... not fully seated, just "in" all the way around, but still sticking out by about 1/8 to 1/4 of an inch...
  18. l008com

    Dust Cap Woes

    Yeah I'm about ready to give them a try, I'm out of other options. But where do you get them? I don't see any stores that have the normal caps, having rubber boots in stock?
  19. l008com

    Dust Cap Woes

    So i made my last post, and i drove to the river to put my boat it. Boated around for a bit, yanked it and drove home. I was feeling pretty good. Then yesterday, I was walking around my driveway doing something else unrelated and saw this: :mad:🤬🤬🤬🤬 I don't understand how they can be so snug...
  20. l008com

    Overheating at idle, cool as a cucumber at speed

    If anyone is interested, while I was doing all this, I did make a video specifically for "how to" replace the impeller. There were tons of these videos already, so now theres one more :)
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