Delays in both material, production and shipping timeframes by manufacturers can vary without advanced notice and while we do our best to keep "Ships: In" timeframes up to date we may not always be able to do so due to a variety of factors. IMPORTANT: Please note that these timeframes are estimates only based on the latest information provided to us by the manufacturer/supplier. Please see the "Ships: In" information located within the main product description to the right of the product image and below the ADD TO CART button for that particular product's "Ships: In" timeframe. This is the number of business days (typically not including the day the product was ordered) that must pass before the item begins the shipping process. Please be aware that all products have a production or warehouse lead time. Bearing Cone: L-44643, L-44696, L-44610Ĥ2208 Genuine Bearing Buddy Bearing Buddy II with Auto Check, 1980A-SS with Bra.When the hub is full of grease, the blue Auto Check ring rests about 1/8" outward from the steel retaining ring.Ī spring loaded piston behind the Auto Check ring pushes against the grease which generates pressure inside the hub to keep water out, thus offering true bearing protection.Ĥ2204 Bearing Buddy Bearing Buddy II with Auto Check 1980A-SS (Stainless Steel) (2) Works like the regular Bearing Buddy, but has new exclusive Auto Check visual lubricant level and pressure indicator. Good luck.Trailer Wheel Bearing Protectors. It's a 2hr job and a small amount of fluffing around. No water in bearings for years now, and pulling the breaks and hub off yearly keeps everything lubed up and functional. I think I went a step too far in getting preload spot on, sometimes I get carried away. I even got the lads at work to machine me a castle nut washer that is 150% and one 175% thickness of the standard washer so I can be very picky with my preload. I keep the bearing seals spot on once a year and use normal grease amounts for wheel bearings. Increase the depth of the dent if the effort to get the buddy off is not enough. How much of a dent should you make? Well do a little and see how hard it is to get the buddy off and on. I used to do 3 center tap hit, only slight ones, at 120deg apart. So it is harder to have the buddy fall out. The deformity rise reduces the overall diameter of where you are putting the bearing buddy, so the buddy is harder to hammer in, so the interference fit between the buddy and hub is tighter. The deformity occurs as a rise on the inner side of the hub (where the buddy slides in) and outer side of hub. When you center punch the edge the hub material deforms slightly (to make a dent you need to make a rise somewhere else). This hub edge needs a light hit with a center punch and hammer. Where you put the buddy onto the hub and tap buddy in with a hammer, there is a 5mm edge on the hub that faces out. As I said above, this couldn't be the case as they were only partially full the second time and even the steel caps disappear. Ive done a bit of googling and most people suggest it could be result of the bearing buddies being too full of grease. Im bringing it back to the tyre shop tomorrow but was just after a bit of info/ ammo if anyone has had the same experience? Ive had a look at the hubs themselves and their doesn't seem to be an excess play in the wheels which could cause them to come loose.Ĭould possibly be the wrong type of bearings (holden/ ford etc) were used? ![]() Has anyone experienced this before and if so, what was the problem, cause its got me buggered. They caps were on tight and a good fit, so much so that I couldn't just take them off by hand after each launch/ retrieve. With not much other options, I bought 6 more caps and just repeated this process each day. By the time I had pulled the boat out at the end of the day and dragged it back to the mates place I was staying at, the steel caps were also gone. WTF? I decided to carry on with them bare and bought a few of the plain steel caps in exxy, and put them on at the boat ramp before putting the boat in. I stopped through coral bay for lunch, and they were both gone again. So I put them on myself and only partially filled them (the buddies) with grease and headed off. By the time I got there, I had also lost the 2nd one. I though they may not have been knocked in properly or perhaps overfilled, causing too much pressure etc and forcing them to pop off, so I cut my losses and stopped through autopro and got another set to put on myself. They looked the goods, but by the time I got to the local servo to fuel up, one of the bearing buddies had fallen off. ![]() I had my trailer bearings and buddies replaced a couple of weeks ago in preparation for a trip from home (Carnarvon) to Exmouth.
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