Bearing Buddies or no Bearing Buddies. That is the question. You know that
poor guy on the freeway you see with his rig sitting off to the side? Well,
he was too lazy to do at the very least, an annual, visual, tactile
inspection of his wheel bearings...Bearing buddies or not! Bearing buddies
are not a maintenence free device. I carry an extra set of Bearings,
grease, seals and a few clean rags in my tool kit whenever, I haul my boat
anywhere. There are times when my trailer axle is submerged for far to long
( because I screwed up backing in). When pulling out of the loading ramp, I
park in the staging area, remove my drain plug and while the water is
draining, I grab my small grease gun and squirt a few shots in the bearing
buddies Zirk fitting. I've practiced this for 45 years. No problems ever. I
did stop on the freeway to lend some family man, (wife and kids) a helping
hand and gave him my spare bearings. I shared my mainteneance habits and
thoughts with him. He seemed appreciative and grateful for the advice.
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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.


There's no reason to believe Loogy has a boat or boats on Lanier.