I hate bearing protectors! Tips needed

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Mergatroid

Mergatroid

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Jul 19, 2007
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Hunter 26 Brookville Indiana
Lost one before our big trip. Ended up towing 7 hours with a styrafoam cup duct taped to the hub.

So I then paid a local marina install one while the boat was in the water.

The day I pulled the boat from the water for the return trip, I lost the new install and an additional one! WTF?

Any ideas, tips or tricks?
 
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Brian M H23

Are these the rubber boots?

or metal caps? If you have "bearing buddies" , they have an integral bearing protector and the rubber cap is really nothing more than a decorative item. Howver, if you have metal caps (or if you are losing entire "bearing buddies" and they keep falling off tt probably means either A - someone is installing the wrong size for your trailer or B - your hubs on the trailer have been deformed, and whatever size is supposed to fit, doesnt. In case A, the answer is obvious, in case B, a mchinist will be needed to fix the hubs / or buy new hubs.
 
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Mergatroid

No, the buddy.

I am guessing that the install of the bearing buddy type protector may not have been great. I had the trailor serviced and had all the bearings repacked, some repleced, etc and they may not have put them back correctly.

Kind of frustrating when you take it to a shop that is supposed to know about trailers.
 
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