Trailer problems

We grease the wheel bearings after each trip but that still won't prevent problems. Got home from MT yesterday evening and husband was greasing the jet and wheel bearings and I here HOLY CRAP. 1 wheel was tilted out. There was a space behind the wheel were the bearings should be. Sure glad we made it home. Got everything unloaded and put outfit back in barn. Took wheel off hoping it was just wheel bearing. NOT. The wheel bearing was mostly gone. The hub destroyed and spindle shot. Now looking at new axle set up or new boat trailer. This 1 is 27 years old and don't know if the bolts holding everything together will even come undone. Looks like a challenge. Then finding new axle assemble that will work. May just go buy new trailer. Just shows that even when you take care of stuff it still breaks. Just glad it didn't do it on the road and we were in out driveway when we found it.

Glad you found it was at home & not along the side of the road. I put a new axle assembly & wheel bearings & U bolts under my trailer for just a little over $200. Not a hard job at all.

Glad you made it home safe. The wheel bearings and races need to be cleaned and inspected, I do mine during the winter when i am not using it.

:twocentsHad a similar problem after making it back from Truman. Had unhitched and was starting to push the boat back in the garage and noticed the left trailer tire leaning to the south. Wasn't the bearings, the lugs had loosened ruining all the studs. Not too bad of a fix but it got me to put a dedicated half inch breaker bar and socket in the door pocket on my truck.......and they get snugged up a lot......

Croft Trailer should have what you need. You can put a whole new axel assembly under it in an hour or so and it will be a lot cheaper than a new trailer.

Stillwater Trailer Manufacturing is about 15 miles from us. It looks like a good place to go.

I have learned you can over grease a trailer ,,,,, hope you get your new axle and it don't hurt to bad.

If the trailer is over all in good shape then I wouldn't get rid of it. New axle, leaf springs, mounting hardware and hubs ran me only $300. Better than the price of a new trailer. I ended up cutting old u bolts off.

I put new bearings in last spring. New grease this spring and two weeks ago burned a bearing up on the road to Truman. Some go some don't I guess. I usually grease mine once a year and I pull mine a lot. Don't even try to take u bolts off cut them. When you get new axel get new ubolts much easier.

this isn't too big a deal, Perch. unless your trailer is rusted away crap, stillwater will get ya a good axle and not too costly. definatly replace the u-bolts and then be sure to re-tighten the nuts on the u-bolts after the first 3-4 trips. they might not back off but if they do and your axle slips out of square, she'll eat tires quick.
also, bearing buddies only grease the outer bearing. little to no fresh grease makes it to the inners so the only way to really know they are greased is to take the hubs apart and re-pack everything. I do this twice a year, or at least I tell myself I should...:banghead