How often to get wheel bearings packed?

[Timber Wolf]

While I do believe that stuff needs lubrication, sometimes we can do more harm than good. The only bearing/hub failure I have personally had in 40+ years of driving/towing was my own fault. I was young and did not really know what I was doing and tightened the nut too tight and destroyed a bearing. I learned a valuable lesson that day.


To answer the original question, I look at the hubs on my utility trailers and if I have no reason to suspect anything is amiss I leave them alone. I have only had my Scamp a year and half and put a new axle under it when I got it. I checked the axle for grease when I got it and have maybe put 5000 miles on it since. I may check it next summer before we leave on a long trip but this Fall, Winter, and Spring will just be short, semi-local camping trips and I am not worried.

[floyd]

Originally Posted by stevebaz

Take your cars wheel bearing...
...This lets me sleep better.
To each his own, what ever lets you sleep at night.

Commendable,uh, attitude,
Sleep well,
After all ... You're only supposed to sleep with the trailer parked...

Rip Van Winkle would wake up to bad tires, bearings, and fungus all over his trailer. The moral is of course about the same.

[Perry J]

I just got back from a 700 mile round trip with a 1200 pound UTV on my ATV trailer.
I haven't serviced the bearings in 6 years.
The hubs are only slightly warm after several hundred miles.
My TV trailer gets used a lot more than my Scamp.
The only time I ever serviced my trailer bearings annually was when I had boat trailers that were continually in the water.
Everything on our TTs should be as trouble free as wheel bearings.


John

[CynSum]

Ok so I have a "dumb" question...if I don't have a trailer with brakes, do I still need to consider repacking the wheel barings on my new to me 1973 trailer?

[David B.]

Cynthia, even without brakes, your wheel bearings still need grease to operate, and since this is a new to you trailer and you don't know for sure when the bearings were serviced and what condition they are in, I would highly suggest that you service them ASAP.
Dave & Paula

[Darral T.]

[james kent]

Originally Posted by CynSum

Ok so I have a "dumb" question...if I don't have a trailer with brakes, do I still need to consider repacking the wheel barings on my new to me 1973 trailer?

It makes no difference as to wether you have brakes or not. Brakes are for stopping and the bearings keep you rolling along. How often do you service your tow? I do the wheel bearings on the. Same basis, or when the trailer has travelled about 5 thousand miles. Sometimes I do them before a long trip. Have had no problems with this trailer in the 20 plus years that we've had it.
Jim


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