You should be using grease specified for disk brakes.
Jim
"Calif Bill" wrote in message
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Went up to a favorite lake next to Yosemite for a couple of days. Coming
back, stopping in Sonora (End of the Emigrant Gap trail) Checking the
trailer before heading into dinner, notice that one hub seems very hot and
then the other side of the trailer on the braking axel there is no Bearing
Buddy or bearing remaining. Too late to fix that evening as the local
Auto Zone can not tell me what bearings a boat trailer takes. And the
kits they have are all for small 1" axel trailers. So into dinner at
Perko's cafe in Sonora, CA Nice senior steak dinner for $10. The young
waitress after taking our orders and delivering them is talking to the
couple at the table next to us. She tells about her husband a 50% time
UPS driver and she is a waitress in a low end cafe. They have bought a
$1000 dog, that pees in the rented house and drools and is going to weigh
135#. Also, the lady has a set of the biggest lungs in mankind, as she
could talk for at least 20 minutes without pausing for breath. And she
says until they have kids, she is going to keep buying dogs as she loves
them. Hope she does not propagate. Luckily, I am in the parking lot of a
major hardware store, so can buy a 10 mm Allen to remove the brake
caliper, and a chisel to remove the remains of the inner race. Call
EZLoader trailer and they give me the numbers for the bearings and seal.
Local NAPA auto parts store has them, and I install. Earlier, I had
walked over to an Auto Zone in the Wal-mart shopping center and they were
clueless. In Wally World, to buy a grease gun and grease, I borrow a
phone book from the service desk. While using the book to track down the
bearings, I overhear the clerk. Mankind is doomed! She says she has
altered her behavior (do not know what is was) since her children were
taken away a couple of months ago. She and her husband argue all the
time, but this is the dooming part. Marriage is a commitment, so they
will stay together even with the arguments. Ought to be a license
required to have children! This is the 2nd failure of bearings on the
trailer, and have decided it is the grease. Only had the failures since I
converted to disk brakes, and the first failure cost an axel. The lake is
at 4500' elevation with lots of up and downs to get there. Will go to
high temperature, sythetic grease after this. As to the lake and boating,
was great. for awhile yesterday, we were the only boat on the lake.
about 5 miles by 1 mile lake. In the morning, was greasy smooth. Caught
and released a few trout off the shore with the fly rod, and a few while
trolling Needlefish. Did not catch any while fly fishing from the boat.