hi welcome to sb seeker this is just a quick video to show you how to change out bearings on
a trailer it's one of those things it's an easy project to do and anybody can do it you can too
once you start building and stuff it you never know what you're going to end up with
we're going to fix up this old compressor to travel down the road because chris has taken
that thing back with him oh his grease is nasty so we're going to replace the bearings so we're off
to go shopping you know when you're going to do a long road trip with a trailer that hasn't moved
in a long time it's a good idea to go ahead and change the bearings out there's a number on the
back there or you can take them to the northern tool they'll have a little gauge rack for them
or you can just measure the id the od of the raceway and the width of the bearing and any
bearing supplier will set you up same thing for the seal somewhere underneath that gradu
there's a number there it all comes as a kit oh it does you buy it all together huh yeah assuming
they're all standard bearings which it's a dexter axle associated they should be standard northern
tool has the handy-dandy gauge rack so you just stick your bearing up and find what size it is
inch and a 16th and inch and three-eighths they do have the kits so we need a inch and a sixteenth by
inch and three eighths and don't forget tractor stores are good places to find boat hardware too
i don't care well i made it all myself so there it comes
changing the bearings isn't a hard thing to do but it sure is a lot easier in your shop
than on the side of the highway actually can't remember the last time i put one of these together
you know living in brownsville texas down near the salt water i think we did it a
lot more often there boat trailers and such they needed a lot more than anything else
okay you know it's funny most of the advice you get as well you need to take precautions for this
and for that and you know be careful of this and it's like i don't remember the traveling or the
adventures where nothing went wrong i remember the ones where something happened that was exciting
you know and unexpected so i think too much of the time we spend our time preparing for what might
happen rather than just going on and going anyway and learning to live with what does happen i think
those are the stories and the times in our life that we rise to the occasion or fail miserably
and learn something but you know it's the you can you can overthink stuff so easily you take so many
precautions so easily and you can keep your boat tied to the pier so easily don't do that
that's not where life has lived life is lived out changing the bearings on the side of a highway in
michigan in a rainstorm seals in ready to go back on ah there's some grease dirt on this one that
channel back there so you can actually pump grease into the thing once it's assembled that's cool
you want to tighten this thing down to make sure you got the bearing seated in there well
but then back it off a little bit this one has a piece of metal here on the washer
it's a d-shaped washer so the washer can't spin and all i gotta do is bend that piece of metal out
others have cotter keys to go through this one has a greaser so it obviously can't put a hole through
for a cotter key but i want to back that down tighten it up make sure that bearing's not gonna
go any further in there and then back it off till i can bend that tab out that gives it the freedom
it needs because we all need our freedom that little tab will hold it from backing off too much
fortified with anti-seize don't you just love the stuff people put on labels to get you to buy it
all right that's plenty
good
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