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Butch Davis
 
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Default Trailer Maint Issue

Thursday out fishing one of my friends told a story of replaceing dry rotted
boat trailer tires with new. Problem encountered was lug nuts frozen to
studs. Long story short, he had them cut off with a torch and replaced
along with lug nuts. Used all SS replacements.

He suggested we all check ours just in case. Checked mine yesterday.
Backed off each nut in turn, applied OMC Triple Guard to the stud and
retightened. One lug nut required a lot of work to remove necesitating a
lot of 1/8th turns back and forth with added lube until I finally worked it
off. Of course the lug and nut were stripped.

Lucky me I have disc brakes so lined up the offending stud with a roomy
space and banged it out using a drift pin. I'll get a replacement Monday.

Moral of story is to check/lube your boat trailer lugs every year. Don't
even have to jack it up if you do one lug at a time. A good anti-seize will
probably work as well as or better than the Triple Guard I use.

Butch


 
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