How Often To Replace Bearings

[oldjeep]

Re: How Often To Replace Bearings

Offroad drivers that do water crossings need to replace their auto wheel bearings every other year due to contamination. Onroad drivers that never encounter a puddle more than 4" deep need to replace their auto wheel bearings every other decade when the seals go bad.

I'm another supporter of using a decent hub design that pushes old grease out when new grease comes in.

The only way you are getting water into a jeeps axle bearing is if your outter seals are bad or if your diff vent is below the water line. I've sure as hell never replaced a jeep axle bearing from water and once every couple of years would just be insane.

 

[gm280]

Re: How Often To Replace Bearings

WOW I have to say I never thought this thread was going to go this long. Seems everybody has THEIR favorite way to do their trailer bearings and since everybody does use their boat/trailers each year, it seems verifiable proof that each found their successful ways to work for them. Trailer bearing are seriously not that difficult to maintain. Common sense should be your guide and if you can keep the grease into the actual bearings, who cares how you achieve that...

I say lets put this one to rest and comment on what is the best 2-cycle oil to use...:lol:

 

[bruceb58]

Re: How Often To Replace Bearings

no I would not use Bearing Buddies, those are good for rear seal blow outs.. that's about it.. I've got easy lube...grease shot in rear, comes out front......

On the pontoon trailer that I had to replace all those bearings...it has EZ lube axles. With Bearing Buddies, likely wouldn't have had an issue.

I've used Buddies,, they cause rear seal blow outs.. pushing grease in from front, and those little pin hole pressure release things?? lol... that's like 1 lb of grease going in and .01 lb coming out that pin hole... where does rest of grease go? out the rear, when the seal lets go.

That's what happens when you over grease them!. They are actually very simple to use. You add grease until the piston just barely moves. After that you just touch the piston to see if it rocks. If you add enough that it comes out the relief hole, you have already overfilled them and likely blown out the rear seal. I never have to add grease to mine since they are already full and the grease isn't going anywhere.

Not sure what the purpose would be to always add grease to an ez lube axle/hub. Once its full of grease, what's the point of keep adding more?

 

[Mel Taylor]

Re: How Often To Replace Bearings

:lol:

I say lets put this one to rest and comment on what is the best 2-cycle oil to use...

I know this is going to be controversial, but I just have to state that I don't use any 2 cycle oil on or in my trailer! However, if I did it certainly would not be that synthetic stuff! According to my next door neighbor it would cause the wheels to fall off.:lol:

 

[bryanzzz]

Re: How Often To Replace Bearings

I mixed up a gallon of 2 stroke chain saw oil, only used a pint of mix, put the rest in my mower. The wheel bearings on my mower are performing as designed.:lol: