Men Check Your Nut

[fishingnut]

Just a quick tip and reminder for everyone here, while ducking outside to check on the battery chargers in the boat i for what ever reason decided to give the wheel a quick wiggle, well one of my wheel bearing were loose as a goose ! A quick tap with a rubber mallet released the bearing buddy and revealed a horrible brown mess (water and grease). A quick tidy up with a whole heap of rags revealed the bearing was still OK and good to go, a guick repack and tighten and im back on the road again.Just goes to show what I thought was good trailer bearings nearly bit me in the bum big time so just goes to show its never too late to give your nuts a wiggle and make sure there up to the task.

Cheers 

[Brodie_S]

That title name. lmfao

[ellicat]

I'll let the wife know.

The trailer is hers apparently.

[Andrew_P]

Don’t get grease all over her handbag Brian!

[rayke1938]

I run dura hubs so if an unlikely seal failure happens the leaked oil is easily visible. Apart from that I have a yearly  birthday schedule I jack up the wheel and pull off drums to check brake linings and refresh the oil, change house smoke detector batterys , buy couple bottles of Buichladdich to last till xmas when I can get more to last till birthday.

[fishingnut]

I  run bearing buddies Too ray, wiped out all the excess brown grease and filled her up with fresh stuff. 

[AUS-BNE-FISHO]

Hi fishingnut

Thanks for the tip, seems like a very good timely reminder for boat owners  

Cheers Hamish

[Bood]

Any tips on how to get the bearing buddies to stay in mine keep popping out

[Junky]

56 minutes ago, Bood said:

Any tips on how to get the bearing buddies to stay in mine keep popping out

Are they genuine buddies? 

If not, buy the genuine USA made bearing buddies. I had the same drama with the rip off brands. 

Been running genuine for nearly 12mths and a lot of km with no problems. 

 

 

 

 

[Bood]

Im not sure only had the boat a little bit, where on there when i got it