Thank you, I started doing that on my goosenecks when I was hotshotting. About 12-15 yrs ago I had a oil seal go out one night on I-10 in La. Caught it too late and burned the bearings up on a weekend. I took the tires off and chained the axle up on that side and was able to get to town. Had to wait to Monday to get new parts. I made a mount on top the necks of my trailers and did the bearing/hub/spare thing. I also started going through the suspension, mounts and changed hub oil every January(easy for me to remember). I do the same on this trailer every January. Not having the spare hub and bearings always kind of bugged me, so I am adding that now while I have it torn apart and modifying.
The only other time to date i have had bearings issue's was on my pop-up camper. This was around 1996, we were going to Rifle falls Co. on Family Vacation. I had the bearings packed at a local shop and had him look the trailer over. We load up and leave Friday night when I get in from job. We were with in 2 miles of the campground and my wife who is now driving wakes me up....there is a noise she says. I get out and look, burned the bearings and hub flopping around. I drag it into camp, we get setup. Between different activities with the kids I get everything taken apart. Hub is shot, the spindle is pretty much shot, gouged out in several places. Monday I go to the RV shop, and for 2500.00 I can have a new axle, 1 week delivery...not gonna happen, Co was going to get a new camper before I did that. I got them order in 1 hub, 4 bearings and 4 seals. I got some brake cleaner/JB Weld and Emory cloth. In between camping stuff, I clean the spindle, aply the JB weld and sand, sand, sand got it smoothed out as good as I could.Go to put the bearing/hub back together and the back seal is wrong. back to shop....thats the only one they make. Apparently I had some type of axle was that different on the back seal and non were made for it?? So I ended up packing the bearings and on the back of the back bearing I just put a light coat of grease and a light coated of grease on the spindle where the seal would have road. The inside of the hub where the seal mounted I kept dry and clean. Got it all buttoned up and ready to go, I took a tube of the black silicon and ran a bead in where the back seal should be, Packed it in with my finger as I inserted the silicone. Let is set for the day. Next day I gently turn the wheel and the silicon did not tear, and rotated like a seal would. We finished our vacation and headed home. Made it back to S.TX without incident, ran it like a c couple more years before i sold it. Got lucky on that one. Seems when I have the parts to repair on the road I dont have the need for them...I do like having th parts though.
Is where the black arrow is or the red arrow? Or am I in right area? Kind of hard to seeThis is the trailer I was referring to, with the adding 3" flat-bar below the tongue to the front wheels area. That flat-bar added quite a bit of strength to the trailer. It isn't real easy to see, just look for the different shade of rust under the front of the trailer and that should make it clear as mud.
David from jax
made it easy.. Flange the end of the axle tubes/spindle..bolt on spindle..shark tank time!!!
