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You left out tire production dates. Old tires with good tread are still failures waiting to happen.
Make sure you have a lug wrench in your tow vehicle that fits the lug nuts on the trailer.
I seem to be spending as much time on my trailer lately as the boat. Never would have expected that. New spindles, new hubs, new tires, winch, Jack, safety chains, ...it never ends.
Yours truly is finding that out since I bought a project boat and it's trailer. Good thing I'm retired or I would never see the end of it!! 😁
When I picked up my first boat (used) to take it home, I didn’t make it 5 minutes down the road before one of the tires exploded and flew apart like a rubber grenade. Since that day, I have been very vigilant about preventative maintenance. The current boat trailer is 13 years old, so over the past 2 years I have replaced the bearings, seals, tires, bunks, inner fenders, winch, jack, tie downs, trailer cord, bow roller, and brake actuator assembly. I always upgrade when possible. Going cheap on a boat or it’s trailer almost never ends well. Storing it indoors also makes a huge difference on lifespan.
Ha I feel your pain old rotten bias Ply tires failed on me after a boat purchase
Hank Schrader you have one of the best channel names I’ve ever seen!
Literally just upgraded to a pair of 6k axles this week on my trailer, shout out to Davis Custom Trailers for the excellent customer service in getting me hooked up and not breaking the bank!
Oh how I love Tuesday, you guys are the biggest reason I still watch TH-cam! #trailers
Thank you! :) Nice work on the trailer!
Best thing I've done for trailer light longevity is run a separate ground wire from each light all the way back to the tongue (where it's also connected to the trailer. This way my ground connection to trailer never gets wet and the lights always have a solid ground instead of just using the light mounting bolt. Always gets a little corroded and I'm just tired of dealing with that.
Another great video. Looking forward to more on brakes. #Trailers
I have experienced almost everything you covered in the video on one trailer or another. Great video, one thing I have found good on long trips is a temperature gun. I just check the hubs on stops and ensure nothing is getting to hot. This can be an early warning of failures. #trailers
No need for a temp sensor gun, use your finger. never breaks and doesnt need batteries, plus you never leave home without one.
You can always use just stainless steel hose clamps and you don't have to mess around with it every 3 years that's what I would do
I worked in Urgent Care for 25 years in Michigan. A boater was coming home from the lake and noticed smoke coming from the right side of the trailer by the wheels. He did not realize it but the rear of the fender had bent and was rubbing on the tire. He got down on a knee to check things out and placed one hand on the fender for support. The fender looked fairly normal and he did not realize it was hot. The boater ended up with 2nd degree burns. He was leaning on the injured hand and it took several seconds for his brain to connect with what his eyes saw. OUCH!
As always excellent especially on the stainless staples. Most important is the year stamped on side of tire. Anything past the legal date is a throw away no matter how good the tread is. Sidewalk cracks is also a no no. Stay safe
Professional truck drivers do Walk-Arounds their trailers. Before a trip and at every fuel / food stop. Check boat covers/straps, hitch and chains, tires and feel the temperature of the hubs .
I built my own trailer out of an old rotted jet ski trailer frame I found in a fence row. Put on new hubs, tires and wheels on the old axle it had and installed bearing buddies and it’s been an awesome little trailer and I’ve traveled out of state and thousands of trouble free miles with my little hunting layout boat on it!
Bearing Buddies, keeping grease in the Bearings,..... Raise your lights so they will not get in the water when you launch...........Keep your springs oiled to keep rust away,...........Change the tires as needed, check the tires often for dryrot ...........use treated Lumber and Stainless Bolts............................
all good tips, i check trailer bearings every year, i had a bearing fail that is not fun along the road side, i have learned to use the correct grese in bearings that means alot!
My wife and I recently bought a 1980 Prindle 16 with trailer and towed it home from Lake Alfred, FL. Once we got the boat off the trailer and jacked the trailer up, the passenger side wheel just pulled right off. The look on my wife's face was priceless. We are currently rebuilding the trailer (new lights, leaf springs, rollers and bearings on the wheel) so it will be road worthy next time. The boat was in way better shape than the #trailer.
After seeing and helping people along my way when I go fishing i did a complete service on my trailer last weekend. It puts my mind at rest when i go fishing this weekend #trailer
I rewired my trailer with tinned marine wiring and put a red marker light on the backside of the rear tail lights facing the tow vehicle so I can see if tail lights are working from my mirrors. In Florida trailer tires do not wear out they rot out. Also when buying new tires make sure the date (week and year, 1222 means 12th week of the year 2022) is current, you don't want to buy tires that are already a year old that were sitting on a shelf.
I had a customer tow their boat over for engine repair years ago. As soon as they pulled into our shop parking lot the tire fell off of their boat trailer. Perfect timing for the customer. We repaired the trailer and the engine! #trailers
I have a single axle trailer. While driving I could see the side walls bulging when I went over bumps. Sure enough I had a blow out halfway home. The next day I bought a larger tires rated for twice the weight of what the boat and trailer weight. Now I have peace of mind when pulling the trailer and boat long distances.
We had a blow out headed for the Keys one year. 2 year old tire, tandem axle trailer inflated to correct pressure.
We have a hydraulic floor jack but no block of wood, and are walking up & down the highway trying to find a shim.
All of a sudden a grey can pulls up. A man, his wife, and 2 little kids.
He asked if he can help, and then he proceeds to go back to the back of his van and comes out with an old scissor jack.
He says, I keep this here for using with my trailer too!
He helps us, we get tire changed, we try to pay him or buy dinner for he & his family. He says nope. I ask him where he works & find out he is a bus driver for Disney World.
We tell him thanks again, are you sure there is nothing we can do to repay you, and he smiles and says
" Pay it forward"
Great guy & a sweet family
We have been trying to live up to his example.
We were towing our 33ft Dusky from Clearwater to Key Colony Beach on a triple axle Performance trailer. We were cruising at about 70 mph on I75 just outside of Port Charlotte and looked in the side mirrors just in time to see the bearings on the curbside front wheel shoot out and the wheel started wobbling. As we were slowing down, the opposite wheel did the same. We then spent 6 hours in Port Charlotte getting a mechanic to fix it. We kept going and made it to Miami where the same thing happened on the middle axle wheels/bearings. Fortunately, this time about 2 cars behind us was a trailer mechanic who actually knew what he was doing and he pulled over to help us. He had all of the parts and tools in his truck and we were back on the road in about 1 hour. Then we made it to Islamorada and got pulled over because only one tail light was working. We shared our trailer story from the day and he let us go with a warning and called ahead to the other police on US 1 to tell them to leave us alone (he was a good one). In the end we learned that because the steel brake lines had rusted, all the fluid escaped the lines early in the trip and there was no pressure to keep the drum brakes not engaged. So the brakes were just pressing against the hub and eventually got so hot that they burnt up the grease and shot the bearings straight out the side. The 2nd mechanic knew this and he helped rip out the brakes so that we could at least make to where we needed to go without blowing out the bearings again. This was a trip that I’ll never forget and it has made me the most prepared and paranoid trailer owner ever, but because of those lessons learned, I’ve never had that same problem again and never had an issue I wasn’t prepared for. #trailers
Literally just realized one of the brackets holding my leaf springs to my trailer completely broke. Like the weld came off and the leaf was held up by the pressure from the other side of the spring. Drove 20miles home with it like that, saying my prayers all the way home. Luckily I made it home and I'm in the process of welding the piece back on. Crazy day. #trailers
Knock on wood i have not had an issue with my trailers under my boats. I am religious about checking tire pressures and hub temp while traveling to catch problems before they arise. On the bunks when i wrap a new bunk with carpet I’ll leave a gap on the bottom of the bunk to let water drain out easier. Thanks for the great info each week! #trailers
I'm new to bigger boat ownership but a few years ago I had pulled a John boat trailer around with a golf cart and it popped off with the hitch and all and fell into the ditch!! Wasn't a fun call for my dad if you could imagine but hey makes me cautious now that I'm pulling something with serious weight 😂 I can't wait for the boat rewire videos I have so many questions
One thing I have learned about pulling a trailer is be prepared and do pm's on trailer and truck.
The trailer assembly on the truck snapped a 3/4 inch bolt. Luckily I was stopping at a stop sign before entering the hiway.
My truck was 10 years old and winter salt didn't help. FYI. Check truck too
Great video. I always wrap my wires and spin the trailer wheel while applying grease when jacked up.
forgot to say that your video is great and will help alot of boaters off the side of the road ....thanks for posting charles
Last August I hooked up to my 21 sea pro bay boat for the first time in a couple of months, with wife and her family in the truck.. 200 yards down the road and all hell broke loose. Looked back and saw the left side of the trailer was dragging on the pavement, no tire in sight. Got out to survey the damage and saw that the leaf spring had broken in half, causing the axle to rotate 90* to where the left tire was the only thing keeping my transom and lower unit off the pavement. (the right-side U-bolt and leaf spring stayed intact through all of this)
It took 2 tow trucks to safely move my boat+trailer onto a rollback truck, to take it to a shop so they could lift the boat off, and onto a new trailer.
A few weeks later I checked the bay at my storage unit and found 1/3 of the U-Bolt that held the leaf spring to the axle laying in the sand.. I guess we had too many people helping load the boat that morning, and the additional weight caused the bolt to break.. The leaf springs and U bolts were replaced
Picked up a friend from the airport then grabbed the boat and trailer to head north. Half hour into the trip, the tread on one of the trailer tires peeled off, taking the fender with it. There was air in the tire still, so I got over and took the next exit. The tread coming off, left the fender on the freeway and the bracket that holds said fender, totally mangled. We still had a 3 hour drive, but the bracket was in the way, so I put a jack stand under it and lowered the trailer, bending back the bracket enough to make the trailer useable again. Not legal, but useable.
We made it to our destination and I caught my biggest Musky in less than 10 min on the water! It was a total mess making it to the lake that day, but the reward was so sweet!
When hooking up safety chains cross them, that makes a craddle incase the tongue comes loose from the hitch.
If you've never seen a tire separate from the tread, it will absolutely pulverize your trailer fender before you can get stopped. Pro-tip: if the tire or tires looks old, replace them.
Good information with the exception of one thing. Never wrap the carpet on the bunks completely around as you did. By doing that the carpet can not drain water. Instead wrap around as you did and staple it about an inch inside the boards edge on both sides leaving about an inch or two in the bottom center exposing the wood thus the water will drain away and not absorb the bottom of the wood. This will. Also let you pre drill the holes for your fasteners that hold on your brackets and fill them with silicone . Not sealing the fasteners as such will rot the wood around them beginning with day one.
I know this comment is 3+ years old, but thank you. I'm about to re-bunk my trailer tomorrow and I've been contemplating what to do. Your method sounds like it's the perfect method.
#TRAILERS I Upgraded my bunks on my last boat trailer to a rubber cover over the carpet to give it a more slippery surface to load the boat on, it worked good. Thanks for another great video.
I've been pretty fortunate with very little trailer problems but I also maintain them regularly. A thrown off bearing buddy now and then, broken fender bracket once and a lot less light issues when I switched to LED. Bunk carpet doesn't last long until I get wear through at the back. I did see a guy turn a tongue jack wheel to a melted hunk of plastic once, apparently it did not like to go 50mph down the road. #Trailers
I also spray the trailer hardware with motorcycle chain lube before I leave for salt water , be aware that every bit of pollen and road dust will stick to it though
I had to do a emergency trailer rehab on Easter a few years ago to tow a used newly purchased Edgewater 185cc from Charleston, SC to Nashville, TN needed new hubs/bearings, and hardware to hold the axle to the springs was a pretty nerve racking 9hrs. Also the springs were shot. #Trailers
great video
had my wheel lock up do to brake drum pad corrosion. big flat spot on one tire
Pro tip pot your wires in silicon caulk before crimping Heat shrink not as important but it does look neat
I prefer dielectric grease and self sealing crimp type shrinkfit connectors or shrink tubing. Sometimes even solder connections and use self sealing shrink tube.
Another one of those just bought a boat story’s. I did get it home ok after purchasing it. When I took it out for the first time on my own, had a nice time and parked it in the driveway and started to wash it down. I got to the #trailer and noticed the rear wheels (duel axel) witch are oil bath hubs had a milky brown fluid in them. Needless to say seals were shot so replaced seals and bearings. So I am constantly going over the #trailer and looking for what needs attention. Next will be the front bearings and brakes, maybe axels too. Thanks for the information and can’t wait for more on #trailers 👍👍
Love the tips. You may also want to add the use of Fluid Film for and steel like the pugs and nuts. My aluminum trailer does have some ferrous parts and I coated them with Fluid Film at least twice a season here in the northeast. So far after two years and many launches in saltwater I am rust free 👍👍
This entire video speaks to me. My trailer has been fresh water dipped it's entire life, two years ago my front tire lost it's tread and was grabbed by the rear tire effectively tearing the welds at the front spring mounts. That's the price you pay for being cheap and not replacing dry rot tires. One additional caveat to the axle inspection is that axle failure isn't also visible. Last year on the way home from the finger lakes in NY, my axle split at a drain hole in the center. It rusted from the inside out. #trailers #BreakOutAnotherThousand
One good story is my brother bought a boat.. thing had only been out a hand full of times with the previous owner. First time my brother takes it out, on his way home the whole tongue of the trailer bent in half after hitting a rather large bump in the road.
Ive been that guy on the side of the road staring at a wheel hanging off because the bearings failed, not proud to say that, but I won't let it happen again!
I've had to rescue many friends that spare no expense on the boat maintenance but think the trailer is good for life. Trailer maintenance makes life so much easier!
you could have mentioned about the age of trailer tires. the 4 digit numbers to the right of the DOT is the month and year the #trailers tires were made. only tires after 2000 have them and we replaced our trailer tires this past year as they were original from 2000
Hm, nice to know! Thank you, I didn't know!
Picked up a boat that had only been trailered back and forth to a marina once a year for 15 years. When I got on the highway the grease broke down and oozed out of the hubs. Limped it to the nearest hardware store for a grease gun and a couple fresh tubes of grease. No permanent damage! #trailers
So strange you came out with a boat trailer video this week lol, We went out fishing last Sunday morning pulled the boat all the way to the ramp about 20 miles and as we were turning into the ramp the right rear tire came off hub and all literally broke the bearings, we grabbed the tire threw it in the truck and launched the boat thankfully it's a triple axel with torsion axles. I spent most of the afternoon Monday putting two new hubs on and all new bearing buddies 4 out of the 5 rubber grommets that were left were dry rotted letting water into the bearings. This is a 2017 18K trailer! So yes absolutely keep a close eye on your trailer! #trailers
Just replaced and wrapped my trailer bunks and thanks to your excellent demo I got a clean professional look to the ends of the boards - thanks! (Your tips are gonna improve my Xmas gift wrapping skills too!)
Best advice I can give anyone is to use some West Systems 105 with 206 hardener on your pressure treated wood. Let your boards dry out for two months and then roll the epoxy resin on them before bunk install. They will last longer than the boat, truck, or lake...
Rebuilding a 88 Welcraft and upgrading everything...currently a single axle trailer with no brakes..but need to add an additional axel to handle the all around bigger rig I’m going with...
#trailers. I recently replaced my trailer bunks, the brackets, the vertical supports and all related hardware. What a difference!
My issue was with the brakes dragging and overheating the hub. Fortunately we found someone on a Sunday to fix the issues and made it to Bimini around sundown.
If i have seen this video 1 week ago i could've saved 500 bucks damn lol bug now I'm redoing my lights, thank you guys
I trailer my boat 4 hours to the coast 2 or 3 times a month. I noticed a something doesn't feel right feeling last trip. I did a heat check periodically on the way home and didn't feel any heat. Once home, I jacked her up and pulled the dust caps. Yup, salt water in the cap. I pulled the bearings and inspected. One needed to be replaced and the other was fine. Races were good. Moral of the story, be aware of how she feels. She'll tell you how she is before a catastrophic failure. Side note, I keep a spare hub in the truck as well as tools for the job.
I replaced all my carpets last year on an aluminum trailer we purchased for our boat and an ole timer said to always leave the bottom of the bunks without carpet that way the water soaked bunks will drain and dry out with rot. If carpet covers the whole bunk the water is trapped and that water will rot the bottom of the bunks and will let you down one day! #Trailers👍🏻
Leaving the bunk bottoms uncarpeted definitely allows them to dry better. I learned that the hard way on an old pontoon trailer. Bunk boards rotted from not being able to sufficiently drain & dry.
Bought a jetski with what i thought was a good painted steel trailer. After a few trips pulling it home on a humpy road i got home and the tongue of the trailer bent in half. Had i not strapped the ski to the trailer tight, the trailer would fell apart on the freeway. The straps connected to the jetski held it all in place. Needless to say, i went out and bought a brand new aluminum trailer for it and it tows like a dream now. #trailer
For a better and 100% rust free staples you want to use Monel staples, Not available in most box stores, but are available online.
Those worst case images make my skin crawl. Great information.
I towed a project boat from joliet il to lake geneva wi. The trailer bearings blewup. I didnt know until I arrived in Wi. The wheel was riding on the hub and castle nut
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What a great library of knowledge
Born Again I have to say. Yourself' and Andy from "Boat Works Today" should have a joint page named "How to fix a hole in the water called a boat". You gentlemen are so spot on. May I add;
If your going to run a non radial tire bite the bullet and buy 16 ply, they hold plugs beautifully. If she doesn't roll on average three times a month, hence she's stored during winter, invest in jack stands. Get the bulge off bottom.
When I was in the Keys last year... some really nice guy decided to cut the wires to my trailer while it was properly parked in the lot... thank goodness for the local Home Depot, now I keep all trailer repair stuff in my truck #trailers
#Trailers had the master cylinder in the hydraulic actuator seize up and stop working towing a 24 foot heavy boat. Made for a long 2 hour haul home with no trailer brakes to assist slowing down. Was not fun stopping going down hill
My fishing buddy was meticulous with maintenance and this was good because I learned a lot from him. Several Saturday mornings we'd gather up in his driveway and he'd teach me something. He fished every year for six weeks in Minnesota and had stayed at the same lodge every year for 10 years and was a member of the family he'd spent so much time with them. He pulled a 5th wheel camper and his 18 foot Express bass boat behind that. Looked like a train going down the highway. He carried extra everything: wheel hubs, tools, grease and was prepared if anyone was or could be. Or, so he thought! His mishap came on one of the busiest Interstates, of course. Something really easy to check and something really easy to miss. All those long trips from Louisiana to Minnesota and that bouncing trailer behind the camper had taken its toll. A spring broke and the trailer settled down low enough that the fender sliced the tire badly. Naturally, that was the end of the tire. Rubber shot up in the air, noise like a siren and swerving followed. Lesson learned? For him it was carry extra springs, hangers and the tools to replace the whole shebang. He did after that! He was a member of the Good Sam Club and they came and helped him out, but it took some time and he calculated that he could have changed it all in the time it took them to show up. That job was one of our Saturday morning lessons shortly after that. #trailers
I can see carrying some extra smaller things - and tools... But more careful observation and maintenance would likely have cured his spring problem and that's a pretty BIG (and pricey) object to just go lugging around everyplace you go... I could even see an extra hanger, lest someone run into you hard and bend the heck out of one, maybe... but an entire set of springs? 🤔🤔🤔
Every year driving Lake George New York oh, I always see a couple of trailers on the side of the road because the bearings burnt up. Great video thanks. Trailers
#trailers tip coat the springs hub and other galvanized parts with a coat of waterproof grease to prolong from rust.
Trailers are fairly easy to keep in good order. I think too many people are just too lazy to carry out the simple periodic maintenance. #trailers thanks again for an informative video. Could you do a video on optimax common problems? Keep up the good work Stuart
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Thanks must have missed it when scrolling through the video's. These test I have already done. My problem is that fuel floods out of the drain holes above the anti cavitation plate. I'll get my hands on an explosion drawing and start tracking down where it may be originating from. Thanks for taking the time to answer my comment.
A buddy and I borrowed his father in-laws fishing boat. His father in-law was telling us that he had just rewired and installed new bearing in the hubs. We got about 1.5hrs from the house and we lost a wheel/hub. Got the wheel/hub it was about 100feet in the bush. Pulled the bearing cap off everything was still there but was missing the cotter pin. Put the hub back on. Did are best to file the threads with a hook file. Tightened the nut and used a hook as a cotter pin. Checked the other side it had no cotter pin as well, put a hook in. Than just turned around and went home. No fishing that day.
Oh no! Can't forget the cotter pins :(
Most tandem axel boat trailers are designed to be able to operate on 3 wheels. If your tire or axel bearing dies and youre in a sticky situation such as being on the interstate you should be able to get to a safe place as long as you drive slow. I wouldn't recommend doing this with a boat over 30 feet though. Id just stop and fix it wherever I am or get it towed.
Wish you could work my boat.....your videos are priceless!!!
Been having issues with the brakes where sometime the pistons don’t retract far enough causing the pads to drag. Guess its time to redo the pistons...
On another note, using some kind of spray down after each dip in saltwater has saved me a lot of headaches - been using salt away for many years. I’m sure fresh water works just as well although I like the piece of mind. #trailers
To avoid all this hassle just use a trailer with rollers instead.
I only back down until the water touches the sides tyres, keeping everything that reacts to salt water out of it.
Great video.. my favorite tire so far is the Goodyear endurance.. cheers!
a year ago i was pulling backing my trailer into my drive way; it's a triple axle and the turn is sharp so the tires get really torqued. My mom's friend started screaming that one of the wheels fell off. I thought she was nuts but when i got out and looked there was the wheel, sitting on the ground. The bearings had failed and disintegrated.
#trailers never had an issue but saw couple of boats sideways on the road. Next year it’s the trailer turn to be pampered as it’s still in good conditions and our hand are full atm😅
First thing I do when I get a trailer with a used boat is replace the tires and bearings (hubs if necessary). It is relatively easy to do and gives me a little peace of mind. #trailers
First long trip from Mississippi to Islamorada my passenger tire blew ripping off the fender, steps and taillight, within the first 2hrs, most likely from going 85.. Luckily I had brought a sparetire, impact wrench and full size jack making the change quick and the rest of the trip went 65 with no issues and easy traffic. #trailers
Lol yes, 85 can do that lol
#trailers. Had to stop for toll and as i pulled out saw my wheel on the trailer was not straight anymore. I stopped and noticed the bearing was completely gone and the wheel already cut into the trailer axle. I found out that it is not a good idea to touch it(burned 2 fingers). Had to get the trailer and boat hauled back with a flatbed.
Every time I pass that tollgate I still remember that day
Love the videos look forward to it every Tuesday. I’m in Massachusetts and can’t wait for the boating season to start in at least a few weeks. As far as a trailer story goes I was heading up to Maine for camping for a week and I got a blow out on one of my trailer tires and had to get a new tire and run driven up to me from mass. #trailers
I saw a wooden trailer the other day on the side of the road with 2x4s all over the ground.
Lustfulvengance has it right: ditch the carpet. And go the extra step of heavy linseed oil treatment to the wood (let pressure treated dry out before trying this). Next, anywhere you have galvanized attached to aluminum, put a layer of rubber/fiber gasket material between, and coat the material with Fluid Film or light grease. For aluminum-to-aluminum joints use Fluid Film in the joint and on all fasteners. And part of my cleanup after a day on the water includes shooting grease in the wheel bearings. I also do this after a long drive before putting the boat in the water. If you don't leave any room for water in the hub (and if your bearing tension is right) you should never have a problem.
Needed roadside assistance from BoatUS recently, 4 1/2 hours later no one ever showed up. Would not recommend paying for this service. Had another experience same trip, called again (don't know why), no one was dispatched. I did have everything needed, but we were on 2 very busy highways and wanted a service vehicle behind us. #trailers
The trailer is the one thing that is usually totally ignored.....Every year when I'm in KCB and the boat is off the trailer I inspect all aspects for wear & rust.....I've never had a trailer failure other than 2 blow outs in over 25 years!! Now that said I don't cover/ encapsulate all 4 sides of the treated lumber.....I leave the bottom partially covered to allow the wood and carpet to breathe and dry out!! Break Out Another Thousand(BOAT) could be avoided if people took care of their property instead of treating it like a piece of junk!!
Yeah so I didn’t have the tongue coupler on the ball all the way and I went over a railroad track going 40mph and the whole trailer smacked into the back of my new truck. Lucky the truck only took some paint chips that I repaired with a touch up pen but THANK GOD for those safety chains. Now I know why they are there!! It prevented the boat and trailer from going astray on the road!! #trailers
You do great work! Top notch care and quality. I love and appreciate the effort you put forth in your work!
Hubs are my nightmare lately! I dont know why the are not lasting, I have bearing buddys and keep them greased and the still fail !
Great video, Thumbs up! #trailers
The hub nut is probably either too tight or too loose, both will wear out bearings quickly.
Great info. Since owning my boat I have learned to how to replace the trailer bearings and I am in the process of replacing the bunk carpet. #trailers
A couple of years ago during the winter we were headed to the lake with our boat trailer and got a flat. I replaced it with the spare and we got to the tire dealer and bought a couple of new tires. The blown tire was bias ply as were the new ones. Again we headed out toward the lake. After a while we had another flat on one of the new tires. So we headed to another tire store. It was the same chain of stores. The store manager came out and said that the other store should have sold us radials. He explained that in the winter the local roads department used some very sharp material to sand the roads and bias ply tires did not hold up. So he gave us credit for the bias ply tires and sold us radials. But he didn't have any radial trailer tires so we put on car tires. I have since replaced them with load range E trailer tires. #trailers
Purchased new to me boat from a co worker and have fished it several times with him. On my solo maiden voyage I see smoke coming out of passenger boat trailer tire. See that it’s a failed bearing hmmm..... two miles from the house I can make it! Moved wheeled tongue jack to frame in front of said axle and took some bind off it away we went safe at home twenty minutes later. (Drive really slow) Ended up putting in a complete axle and hub assembly due to eating the spindle! #trailers
Bypass the frame ground and wire it directly to each light w an outdoor extension cord and heat shrink crimps. Lasts for years!
After screwing my ground wire into the frame I spray over it with liquid electrical tape and it always keeps corrosion away and waterproofs the ground
On my way home from fishing one evening I smelled something burning, pulled over and found left side hub had burned the bearing completely off, the race was the only thing left, 10 miles from home, dark and along, I drove slow with flashers on all the way home. Next morning I jacked up the trailer and the wheel slid right off. From now on, start of every boating season, I remove the hubs and hand pack inner and outer bearings. #trailers.
You are always backing the trailer in to the water...... And you never think about repacking the wheel bearings
Unless boat axels have different rear seals from rv axels, I've seen serveral customers using bearing buddies, blow out the rear seal. My current job as an rv service tech has me seeing this a lot of #trailers. You touched on some great points but I might add, please don't use the scotch locks they send in the wiring kits! Use heat shrink butt connectors to save everyone the headache
My uncle keeps his 22 foot Sea Hunt on a dual axle Continental trailer. It was a day we were going fishing and we were on our way home and he got a flat tire on the side of I-95 South in Boynton Beach #Trailers #trailers
LMAO!!! I love these videos, they have taught me so much. However, was it just me, or at 0:41 the license plate on the trailer is blurred out. Then, exactly 1 min later (1:41), same trailer, but no blur on the plate. Seriously though...I do love these videos as they are really informative. Please keep them coming as I'm sure there is much more for me to learn.
We took our recently purchased 212 SeaHunt Triton cross the state of Florida from Port Charlotte to Cocoa Beach. On our way back we had one of our hubs fail. Luckily I saw the smoke. We were lucky to find a mechanic but after $400 and 3 hours of wait we were back on the road. Love your channel. Can you put a video showing how to change six lug hubs? #trailers
Its basically the same as the 4 and 5 lug :)
#trailers Ive been taking better care of my boat and trailer since I started watching. Videos are awesome and so is the website. Thank you
My buddy lost a wheel on his boat trailer on the highway because of bearing failure. After waiting on a tow truck, a driver who fell asleep drifted into shoulder and ran into the transom of the boat. The boat was totaled. He relied on the mechanic 12months prior to service the hubs and never checked them again. I check my hubs twice a year.
Out of control!
I watched for the boat trailer video, but those Covid numbers at the end of the video compared to the numbers today...... more scary than a boat trailer failure.
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I service my bearings once a year. And wash the trailer down good after salt use to minimize the amount of rust. I usually only run my tires about 3 years before replacing them.