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Bearing buddies


Dano2

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I have had the same ones on for over 4 years now, and am wondering if they are going bad,
How can you tell?
For some reason, I seemd to have blown the inner seal for the second time this year pumping a little extra grease in, and never had this problem before.
Maybe I shouldn't have taken them apart when I did my bearings.
I KNOW I have them back together correctly too. hmmmm, ticks me off

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I have had the same ones on for over 4 years now, and am wondering if they are going bad,
How can you tell?
For some reason, I seemd to have blown the inner seal for the second time this year pumping a little extra grease in, and never had this problem before.
Maybe I shouldn't have taken them apart when I did my bearings.
I KNOW I have them back together correctly too. hmmmm, ticks me off

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Aside from adding the grease regularly to keep the bearings lubed is there other maintance required? Should they be pulled and repacked? I guess I was under the assumtion that the bearing buddies needed no maintance. Someone please advise. My boat is not going on 4 years old and I have done nothing with the bearings..

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Are there any special tools required to get them off? Or manuals? I would like to learn how to do this myself. I've never messed with trailer bearings before. Thanks.

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I have had the same bearings and bearing buddys on my Easy Loader trailer since 1976.
I did install the bearing buddy spring loader seals and spindle covers. This stopped grease leakage all over the inside of the wheel rim.
I use a couple of old tennis balls for covers to keep the dust out of the bearing buddies.
I my opinion the buddies were the best thing that happened to trailer bearings.

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Bob/MN

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I called Shorelander to hopefully get advise on this repacking the bearings or changing out the hubs and I was advised that as long as you keep them greased there should not be any reason to ever repack or replace unless you actually blow a seal.

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