How to Grease Wheel Bearings

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Hi, I'm Albert Hedgepeth with Expert Village. Today we're going to talk a little bit about trailer maintenance. Let's talk about bearings. Bearings are the most important part of a trailer. If you're bearings aren't greased properly or if they breaking down, you can start fires, you can lose your load and you can really get yourself into some trouble. One of the first things that you want to do is you want to go ahead and check to make sure that the bearing is in good condition. You can do that by grabbing the tire and you want to make sure that it doesn't have much play in it. You do this by wiggling it back and forth. It will have a little bit of play, but you can really feel it if the bearings are going bad because it will really fluctuate back and forth. You want to make sure that the wheel spins pretty freely on its own. And you can this by just jacking up the trailer a little bit and checking both of these two things. Another thing that you should do quite regularly, at least once every couple of months or if you're using your boat in the water often, is to go ahead and fill your buddy bearings. Most modern day trailers are coming with a buddy bearing fitting that will hook right to a grease gun and usually what you do is you just stick it right onto the nipple and give it two or three pumps of fluid or of the grease. And usually they have a little porthole that will drain whenever its full. If you go ahead and go to your trailer and don't see an actual nipple or a buddy bearing fitting, a lot of times they'll have a cap around the outside of them and if you have a trailer with that, what you want to do is you want to remove the cap, you want to pack the cap with grease by hand and then stick the cap pack over the top of the bearing. If you go ahead and you make sure that your bearings are greased and that your bearings are in good condition and moving freely, usually the trailer will operate pretty normally.

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