Deadmeat
Well-known member
In 1984 I bought a 14-foot v-bottom Alumacraft that I sold a couple of years later but I kept the trailer. The first thing I did with the trailer is to replace the wheel bearings. For some reason that I can't remember I didn't use Bearing Buddies on the wheels. Instead, I used some bearing protectors that were of a clear plastic and had a grease fitting in the center. After each trip to the lake I would just let the bearings cool, squirt grease in the fittings, and keep going.
I sold the boat and trailer in 2005, and in that length of time I never replaced the wheel bearings, and that boat was on the lake at least twice a week for the first twelve years and at least twice a month thereafter. Maybe I'm wrong, but that seems like an inordinately long time to go without changing wheel bearings, and I attribute it to the bearing protectors as well as lubing them after each trip. Maybe Bearing Buddies would do the same thing, but I don't know. I'd love to get another set of those clear plastic bearing protectors but I have no idea where I got them or how to find them again. Anybody got any ideas?
I sold the boat and trailer in 2005, and in that length of time I never replaced the wheel bearings, and that boat was on the lake at least twice a week for the first twelve years and at least twice a month thereafter. Maybe I'm wrong, but that seems like an inordinately long time to go without changing wheel bearings, and I attribute it to the bearing protectors as well as lubing them after each trip. Maybe Bearing Buddies would do the same thing, but I don't know. I'd love to get another set of those clear plastic bearing protectors but I have no idea where I got them or how to find them again. Anybody got any ideas?