Boat Trailer Incident.....Again

Steve and I fished Okatibbee today and on my way home I noticed in my mirror that my driver's side trailer wheel was at a 45 degree angle. I got pulled off of the road just as the wheel came off. Nothing was hot, it looks like the outside bearing broke allowing the hub to come off of the spindle. This is the second time this has happened. I'm thinking the problem is the fact that I have a single axle trailer with the weight of my boat. I have a torsion axle on my trailer and maybe that's the problem. I just don't know. Luckily, I had a spare hub with packed bearings in the tool box of my truck so I was back on the road in an hour or so. Any ideas would be appreciated.

Glad you and Mr. Steve made it safely.

That stinks. Glad everything turned out ok.

Was a stroke of luck that you noticed it in time.....could have been bad if it had come off going 70 down the highway

Glad you had the parts with you, that sure helps!!

Only fix is a new boat. Steve would look good in a Basscat.

Wannabe...

glad you caught it before it got you !!!! where have you been getting your bearings and hubs from ?? there was some bad ones going around a year or so ago I had the same problem from the ones I was getting from a particular place !!!

Man, I wish I knew the reason and fix. That's got to be the pits. Just glad y'all ok and got it home safely.
did the nut also come off? I wasn't aware the outer race and nut would go thru the inter one.

[QUOTE=Wannabe...;2839800]Only fix is a new boat. Steve would look good in a Basscat.

Or a dual axle trailer, you got one? By the way I cleaned 7 fish and 4 had small egg pods.

Just tell Pam that you want a new tandem axle trailer for Christmas