Video Transcript for All About the Bearing Buddy Bearing Protectors-BB87SR

Hello, everybody. This is Jeff at etrailer.com. Today we're gonna take a look at the Bearing Buddy Chrome Plated Bearing Protectors for the 2.717 Hub Bore, and it is for a quantity of two. Now these protectors are great for marine applications, the Bearing Buddy design, it's an easy way to protect your bearings by keeping water out and ensuring enough grease is in the hub. These will replace the grease caps that are on your axle hub, and they'll provide your trailer bearings with premium protection. These will prevent wheel bearing failure by providing a nice, easy way to control the grease volume in your axle hub.

They do help keep water and dirt out of the hubs in the bearings, and it'll even allow your boat trailer wheels to be completely submerged. It does stop corrosion and pitting on the bearings. If you notice, it provides a nice, easily accessible grease Zerk fitting here, so it makes adding the grease to the bearings very quick and simple. All you have to do is remove the cover, put your grease gun onto the Zerk fitting, pump the grease in there. Now it will maintain a slight controlled pressure, about three PSI, using a spring loaded piston.

This will prevent water from entering the hub. And it'll allow visual monitoring of the grease levels. We're using this blue indicator ring you see right here. This ring is designed to sit flush with the top of the cylinder when it's full. Now if the ring goes below the top, you just add grease to move the piston outward.

This does prevent overfilling and rear seal damage with the automatic pressure relief feature. Basically, the grease will seep around the piston edges and into the barrel when it's full. Now these parts are constructed of stainless steel internal parts and has a triple chrome plated steel barrel. It does ensure a longer lasting fit than some of the plastic or aluminum products that are out there. And as we've mentioned, you'll notice it comes with these rubber protective covers that when you're done putting the grease in, just push them all the way over there and that'll keep anything from getting inside.

Now to install these, it's very easy. Basically all you have to do is remove your grease cap, put this on the hub, and then using a block of wood against the Bearing Buddy, tap on that block of wood so this will install equally into your hub. This part is made in the US. A few specs, again. We mentioned it's designed to fit the 2.717 hub bore diameter. They also make these in other available diameters to fit your hub size. This will work with the outer bearing model numbers 14124, and 14125A, which are commonly found on the 5,200 pound to 7,000 pound Dexter axles. But that should do it for the review on the Bearing Buddy Chrome Plated Bearing Protectors for the 2.717 Hub Bore.