Venture Trailers

[Jacktar]

Help!Anybody out there with a Venture trailer that came with a 216? How does one pull the bearing hubs to check and repack the bearings after being in the water a few times? Normally as I've done on cars and my Loadrite trailer, just took the dustcap off, pulled the cotterpin, spun the nut off and off came the hub, bearings, etc. On this one, there's some kind of extension to the hub with a plastic cap. The nut's behind that and not accessible. Tried everything to get the d....n thing off without destroying. Manual is generic and no help, Venture can't be reached. Any ideas? Thanks

 

[Jacktar]

Correction

Oops, Regarding the topic should be: General Interest and should refer to the 216's trailer. Don't know where Liberty came from. Sorry.

 

[rik absher hunter 216]

Bearing Buddies

Buy a set of bearing buddies (bearing protectors), they allow you to keep the hubs grease with a grease gun. They are spring loaded to keep the grease at the bearings, and The part with the grease fittings moves outward as you fill it. Crazy Dave installed them on the trailer when I bought my boat, but I had installed them on my two previous trailers.

 

[Jacktar]

Thanks, Rik

Thanks, Rik! Know about Bearing Buddies and expect to use. BUT! Can't install them until this darn hub extension is ripped out, which I'm reluctant to do because it'll get ruined. Maybe I'll do it anyway. In all my days, never saw anything like it nor have others. Drat!

 

[rik absher hunter 216]

Helpful hints

I alwys take a 4 lb hammer and a flat tip screw driver as a chisel to start the cap, it helps to have the wheel jacked up to allow you to spin it to different points. It takes time and a lot of creative language to get them off.

 

[Jacktar]

Helpful Hints

Yeah Rik, know what you mean, did it many times and although this thing is totally different than those metal dust caps, the hub itself looks like it'll take the bearing buddies ok. I'm givin' it a shot. Thanks

 

[Bill Perry]

Grease fitting

I have one of the Venture trailers and there is a grease fitting on the TOP INSIDE of the hub. It may be a poor man's Bearing Buddy or it may be equally as good. I don't know if it internally has the capacity for more grease and pressurises via springs but it would seem that a few pumps on a regular basis would negate tearing the hubs apart.

 

[Jacktar]

Poor man's Bearing Buddies

Thanks Bill!Put a lot of grease into that fitting until it came thru to the outer hub. Glad I didn't pull the hubs apart, now. True, there doesn't seem to be any spring pressure, but I'm sure the entire cavity is filled.