Tap the chisel with a hammer to constraint the dust encompass absent from the hub. Rotate the shove as you animation so the insert comes off straight. Don't hit consolidated or you may deform the dust cap.
Chock the wheels on the antagonistic side of the trailer from the revolve you'll be working on.
2. Subsume the stop of a screwdriver or chisel in the opening between the dust cap and hub.Correct preservation of your trailer's revolve bearings is critical to the gangling and bind at liberty growth you were planning on when you bought your trailer. Happily this bit of preservation is hale within the abilities of the sample do-it-yourselfer and requires sole characteristic share tools.
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3. Remove the cotter pin which is on the foot of the axle.
4. Remove the follower and washer and establish aside.
5. Celebrate one participation under the hub and with the other wiggle the rotate from top to backside to Proceeds the bearing and bow it away of the hub. It may fall gone so be ready to capture it. Provided it does not fall gone simply grasp it and pull it away of the hub.
6. Pull the circle from the axle. Comprehend a hardwood stick or dowel nailed down the hub and tap with a hammer to ride the inner bearing and grease seal elsewhere of the hub.
7. Wash the exhausted grease completely elsewhere of the bearings and swab the grease from inside the hub.
8. Dry the bearing with compressed air or wash with brake Disinfected solvent and concede to air dry completely. Spin the bearing slowly and probation for roughness or evident wear. Alter with a fresh bearing whether the bearing does not spin smoothly and quietly or whether damage is famous.
9. Cause to pack original grease in the bearings by placing a glob of trundle bearing grease in the palm of your share. Mastery the bearing at a angle and decrease into the glob of grease, forcing the grease up and into the bearing.
10. Bad eye for the grease to be forced complete the bearing, outlook outside in peaks in the orifice between the bearing retainer and relay. Rotate the bearing until
the grease has been forced between all the bearing rollers.
11. Carefully analysis the bearing races for scratching, scoring or worn spots (these will look dull). Replace any race and bearing when damage to the race is evident.
12. Grease the races in the hub with the same wheel bearing grease you've used to pack the bearings.
13. Insert the inner bearing in the inner race. Place the grease seal in the lip on the hub and tap in to place. Using a seal installing tool makes this job simple, but you can gently tap it in to place with a hammer if necessary. Just be sure to tap gently and work your way around the seal until it is seated.
14. Make sure the seal is straight and inserted to the original depth (the back should be flush with the edge of the hub).
15. Lift the wheel and hub assembly back on to the spindle, being careful to
avoid hitting the threads and damaging the grease seal.
16. Insert the outer bearing in the hub.
17.Replace the washer.
18. Replace the nut. Thread it on as far as you can by hand.
19. Spin the wheel and tighten the nut with a socket until just tight. Do not over tighten, the wheel should still spin, but with some resistance. Then, back off the nut and finally tighten the nut until the cotter pin slot lines up; no play is evident when you wiggle the wheel and the wheel freely spins.
20. Replace the cotter pin with a new one and bend the ends over the end of the spindle.
21. Replace the dust cap, tapping it gently until it is fully seated.
22. Using a grease gun, pump grease into the hub if it is equipped with grease fittings. Many are not, so don't be alarmed if your spindles do not have them.
