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On Mar 29, 12:12 pm, wrote:
On Mar 29, 11:06 am, wrote:



On Mar 29, 9:17 am, wrote:


On Mar 29, 3:54 am, wrote:


On Mar 29, 12:03 am, "SteveB" wrote:


My new used trailer has buddy bearings. On one tire, there is a
lot of
grease spun out on the wheel and tire. The other not so much. I'm
going to
pull them. What do I look for in terms of wear or failure? Do I
spin the
wheel jacked up before pulling and listen for growl? Is the race
pressed
into the wheel? Onto the spindle? I've done a lot of things
mechanical,
but this is new. And what about the buddy bearings? I've heard
both ways
on those.


Steve


Bearing Buddies are junk. Remove them, and put on normal bearing
Caps.
All Bearing Buddies do is allow the grease to be pushed out the
inward
side of the axle by the Bearing Buddies when you overload them too
much. I've seen this happen repeatedly.
Pack the bearings by hand, and you will not have this happen
again....that is, after you replace the inner seals on your axles
that
have been blown out by over packing the bearings using the
aforementioned " Bearing Buddies".


Only if you're a complete moron that can't grasp the instructions. Oh,
wait, I forgot who I was replying to. They probably aren't the best
choice for you.


The above post coming from a Lake Lanier idiot who doesn't have, or
never owned a trailer.
Go back to Rainbow Country and talk up your home-made swill.You know
more about that than you do about trailers, asswipe Dwarf Army Grunt.-
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I've owned more pairs of Bearing Buddies than you'll ever see, dummy.
And for what it's worth, I was agreeing with you. If you aren't bright
enough to follow the manufacturer's instructions, then you probably
shouldn't use them.


I've owned more pairs of Bearing Buddies than you'll ever see,
dummy.

Gee, what a man. Looks like you've REPLACED more Bearing Buddies than
I've owned, too. Case closed. What a fool.
Loogy is one of those stupid people who has forgotten to replace his
bilge plug, sunk and re-floated his boat (if he has one) and kept
wondering " Why'd it go down...again".

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Ah. My cherry is done for, folks. My first plonk in rec.boats. Sleep
well, gay prince.

Steve