Bearing Buddy Grease Caps BB2441SS Review- Video
Today, were going to review part number BB2441SS. These are the Bearing Buddy Bearing Protectors in a stainless steel construction. These Bearing Buddies are great for marine applications. The stainless construction will provide the best in corrosion resistance and the design of the Bearing Buddy makes an easy way to protect your bearings by keeping the water out, ensuring enough grease is in the hub. Basically, these Bearing Buddies will replace the grease cap on your actual hub. Remove the dust cap or grease cap and this would insert in place of that.more
Watch Video7/19/2012 2:18:29 PM
Bearing Buddy Grease Caps BB1980T-SS Review- Video
Today, were going to review part number BB1980T-SS. These are the Bearing Buddy Bearing Protectors in a stainless steel construction, and these are the threaded version. These are great for marine applications because the stainless steel construction will provide great corrosion resistance. The design makes the Bearing Buddy an easy way to protect your bearings by keeping water out ensuring enough grease is in the hub. This will replace the threaded grease cap thats on your actual hub right now. They prevent wheel bearing failure by keeping water and dirt out of the hubs and bearing and allows both trail wheels to be completely submerged.more
Watch Video7/19/2012 2:17:11 PM
Remove and Reinstall a Trailer Hub Review- Video
First off, we will take off the hub, then take off the nut on the inside, and we will pop the whole hub off and take it to the workbench and clean it up from there. You can see there is a lot of rust in there, there is a lot of condensation. Basically water got in there through either condensation or a seal leak. We definitely need to take it apart and clean it up. This has whats called a tang washer. Instead of a regular cotter pin that goes up and down, it has a little piece of metal that goes between the notches here and you have to push this back, flat, so you can take off the nut. And the whole thing just slides off. Sometimes if it gets caught on the hub here you can beat it to get it to come loose. We will go ahead and clean this spindle off here, and then we will put our hub back on. Give it a test fit first to make sure it all slides on pretty good and then go ahead and take it back off. What is good is to take a thin layer, it doesnt have to be much just a little bit, to kind of help the parts slide on a little bit more than they used to. more
Watch Video8/7/2008 12:20:07 PM
Trailer Hub Inspection Demonstration- Video
We get many many questions on how to make sure trailer hubs and brakes are safe for travel. Here Joe addresses some of those questions demonstrating how to thoroughly inspect the hubs, breaks and bearings. I know many of us take the performance of these assemblies for granted but if you are planning a long trip or just make short trips around town you should be aware of their condition. I like to say it is time well spent when it avoids break downs on the side of the highway. more
Watch Video7/23/2008 3:54:13 AM
Packing Trailer Bearing Demonstration- Video
Do not put off checking and repacking your bearings as it will save you a lot of trouble down the road. It may be messy but is well worth it, time well spent. Joe spells it out for you step by step making it all very easy. more
Watch Video7/23/2008 3:52:04 AM
Bearing Buddy II with Auto Check Review- Video
Today we are going to show you part number 1980A it is a Genuine Bearing Buddy trailer wheel bearing protector. The part number actually stands for 1.98 inches. It is shown here because it is the most popular bearing cover size for all 3,500 pound axles and most 2,000 pound axles and hubs that are out there. What these parts do is replace the regular dust cap that is on your hub. Basically, that gets taken off and everything stays the same on the inside. What you do is pack a little bit of grease in these, just a little bit in here. Then what happens is this gets installed and it does get hammered into place, use a wooden block between this and the hammer. And you drive it in flat. As you can see here there is a little Zerk fitting here. Once you have the bearing protector installed you fill it up with grease. And basically you just want to fill it up just enough until the spring starts moving out, because what has happened is you have air trapped in there and you want to give it a chance to work its way out.more
Watch Video7/18/2008 3:40:04 PM
