Trailer maintenance help please

[semble]

You got me paraniod!  I haven't repacked my bearings for this season yet.  Had to pull the hubs today to make sure all looked good.

[jdmidwest]

I usually do a walk around and check the hub temps when I am pulling and get out for anything.  I drag mine alot too.

I take the bear buddies off each season and repack like normal, fix any leaky seals.

[fishinwrench]

Jack each wheel up, check for any side-to-side wobble, look behind the wheel hub for any signs of escaped grease, then give it a good spin.   If it spins freely and smoothly without any noticable scratchy noises, then pump some grease into the bearing buddy until it won't accept any more.....and consider it good for 300-400 miles.  (or in MY CASE, a whole season 😅)

[BilletHead]

15 minutes ago, jdmidwest said:

I usually do a walk around and check the hub temps when I am pulling and get out for anything.  I drag mine alot too.

I take the bear buddies off each season and repack like normal, fix any leaky seals.

           Do a walk about on my rigs to JD. It's a good deal.

[snagged in outlet 3]

I walk around it every stop.  They were fine at fort Leonard wood.  

[snagged in outlet 3]

24 minutes ago, fishinwrench said:

Jack each wheel up, check for any side-to-side wobble, look behind the wheel hub for any signs of escaped grease, then give it a good spin.   If it spins freely and smoothly without any noticable scratchy noises, then pump some grease into the bearing buddy until it won't accept any more.....and consider it good for 300-400 miles.  (or in MY CASE, a whole season 😅)

I’ll be done with all the driving when I retire soon

 

[fishinwrench]

26 minutes ago, snagged in outlet 3 said:

I’ll be done with all the driving when I retire soon

 

One less dickhead clogging up the highways.  Hallelujah! 👍

[snagged in outlet 3]

3 minutes ago, fishinwrench said:

One less dickhead clogging up the highways.  Hallelujah! 👍

What do you care?   I thought you were never on them.  😁

I can’t change where I was born.  

[Flysmallie]

I don’t ever remember doing much of anything to the last trailer we drug all over. I bet that thing had close to a hundred thousand miles on it. 

[fishinwrench]

1 minute ago, snagged in outlet 3 said:

What do you care?   I thought you were never on them.  😁

I can’t change where I was born.  

Just once I'd like to drive somewhere and not see 200+ other vehicles per mile the whole way.   I'd actually enjoy the drive.   It's those occasional near head-ons that keep me all tensed up. Road warriors that drive so much that they get all lax and cavalier about what that yellow dotted line means.   

 

1 minute ago, Flysmallie said:

I don’t ever remember doing much of anything to the last trailer we drug all over. I bet that thing had close to a hundred thousand miles on it. 

Well there's plenty to go wrong with trailers.... that's for sure. 

Bunks, wheels, lights, tires, winch, ect.   Seems it's always something.   

I've got 16 trailers in my yard right now, and I bet there isn't a single one that doesn't have an issue of some sort.