Hey Gordon just an FYI on greased bearings some companies prefer to pack their wheelbearings merely for financial reasons You almost never ruin a set of brake shoes with packed wheelbearings there’s a plus and minus both ways plus is you don’t ruin as many brake shoes but you do have to pack your wheel bearings every year the plus about having oil in your hubs as long as you have nice clean clear cover windows you can see the oil level and it does reduce friction a little bit a lot of us run synthetic oil in our hubs they run a little cooler that way also when it comes to hub covers it is not uncommon to break the screws trying to change the windows for me doing it for a customer it is cheaper for my customer to get a new hub cover then to change the window Take care out there don’t hit your head too much underneath the trailer
I went back to oil bath as you will see in the next couple of videos. You probably disagree but I never ruined a set of brake shoes by them getting oil on them or brake fluid on cars, I just clean real good with brake cleaner and sand them off a bit and back together on my own vehicles and never new the difference. It's mostly a matter of political correctness over contamination not to say they can always be adequately cleaned but it does work.
What I do on them hub oil seals ,an anything else that is sketchy about coming lose, or i might break the fastener. I will strike it with a hammer to break any corrosion bond. This work to with Philips heads, put a screw drive in the slot an tap it a bit with a hammer/ it helps a lot
I've been binge watching your videos and one thing you DON'T do that makes me cringe is you don't put a jack stand under your axles. Even blocks of wood is better than relying on a hydraulic jack. Other than that, I'm enjoying your videos.
You considering going oil bath when you put it back together? Just did cam bushings on my spread axle...... Zero mantenance on that wagon Gordon, Looks like they just ran it for years without doing anything
LOL "F" them, I do not use a torque wrench, Unless it is a critical area ,like the engine, trans, rear ,steers,. when you fix everything ,like Gordon an I an as long as we been wrenching ,you just know
Been a truck driver for 25 years, and it’s great to see the mechanical side of the industry. Excellent video young Sir.
Thank you sir.
Really like your repair videos Gordon, Like you, I also run older self maintained equipment and its interesting to see how others do things .
Thank you sir. I have a lot of different equipment to maintain, a lot of practice.
hey Gordon, use a pipe wrench on those axle nuts. it'll go between the studs. been doin it for years. it'll even catch the inner bigger nut as well.
I do have a huge pipe wrench from Harbor Freight that I use for straightening bent metal, that's a good idea, thanks.
Hey Gordon just an FYI on greased bearings some companies prefer to pack their wheelbearings merely for financial reasons You almost never ruin a set of brake shoes with packed wheelbearings there’s a plus and minus both ways plus is you don’t ruin as many brake shoes but you do have to pack your wheel bearings every year the plus about having oil in your hubs as long as you have nice clean clear cover windows you can see the oil level and it does reduce friction a little bit a lot of us run synthetic oil in our hubs they run a little cooler that way also when it comes to hub covers it is not uncommon to break the screws trying to change the windows for me doing it for a customer it is cheaper for my customer to get a new hub cover then to change the window Take care out there don’t hit your head too much underneath the trailer
I went back to oil bath as you will see in the next couple of videos. You probably disagree but I never ruined a set of brake shoes by them getting oil on them or brake fluid on cars, I just clean real good with brake cleaner and sand them off a bit and back together on my own vehicles and never new the difference. It's mostly a matter of political correctness over contamination not to say they can always be adequately cleaned but it does work.
Thanks for sharing Mr. Robertson. Interesting and educational video, even for a 55yr old A&P Mechanic.
Thank you sir.
Great videos Gordon learning alot happy holidays
God bless
Thanks for watching. Happy holidays to you as well.
Sure nice of Justin Sturgis to set you up.
Yes it was!
Saludos Gordon...siempre aprendo algo nuevo con tus videos...GRACIAS👍🔩🛠⚒🇵🇷
Bueno oir eso Jose. Gracias y saludos tambien
Appreciate the vid. Really like all your videos
Thank you sir.
Keep doing what your doing
Love your videos
R.O.R. Meritor hub nut box wrench is what you need for the eight sider nuts
You don’t have to take the hub off, just pop the plates at the slack adjuster and you get enough swing to slide by. It will save you some time
What I do on them hub oil seals ,an anything else that is sketchy about coming lose, or i might break the fastener. I will strike it with a hammer to break any corrosion bond. This work to with Philips heads, put a screw drive in the slot an tap it a bit with a hammer/ it helps a lot
Master, thank you very much, you're the best
Thank you sir.
Great work my friend
Thanks John.
Looks like you will get plenty of videos out of that trailer. Too bad its getting cold out. Hopefully some of it can wait til spring!!
I can do the frame repairs next summer and maybe the brake chambers and shocks. I think I've done all I'm going to do on it 'till then. Thanks Adam.
I really enjoy your videos how is your house trailer project going I hope good you’re a good mechanic my friend be safe
Thanks Glenn, the mobile home is moving real slow, just no time for that yet.
LOL trool food, Man i love your Vids
I've been binge watching your videos and one thing you DON'T do that makes me cringe is you don't put a jack stand under your axles. Even blocks of wood is better than relying on a hydraulic jack. Other than that, I'm enjoying your videos.
It looks like someone did grease the slack adjusters regularly. But they just didn’t grease the outboard s cam bushings. They look bone dry.
Slacks don't move much internally, they don't get near the workout as the cams. Thanks for watching Pat.
You considering going oil bath when you put it back together? Just did cam bushings on my spread axle...... Zero mantenance on that wagon Gordon, Looks like they just ran it for years without doing anything
They only greased the slack adjusters and nothing else.
I did go back to oil bath, it's all done and back to work now.
Mr Robertson it seems that the shock obsorber at the 3:30 has a hole on it. Thank you for teaching us.
I'm sure all the shocks are original, I'll deal with that next summer. Thanks for watching.
I have nut seen one of them axles for 10 years or more those are old school now in the uk
They're old here too, this trailer is a 1997 model. Thanks for watching.
LOL "F" them, I do not use a torque wrench, Unless it is a critical area ,like the engine, trans, rear ,steers,. when you fix everything ,like Gordon an I an as long as we been wrenching ,you just know