Bearing fluid???? Must be a California or Tennessee thing. We call it Axle grease I assisted my late father in greasing bearings enough over the years.
We grew-up in the foothills near the massive Southern Pacific switch-yard in Roseville California. One hobby was parking near the tracks coming down from the Sierra Nevada mountains.
We often saw railroad cars with glowing red hubs from dragging brakes. Controlling the speed of a million ton of train requires a delicate hand on the notch.
By-the-by, in the early 1970s, a load of bombs caught fire, causing evacuation, and blowing houses off foundations a mile from the Roseville yard.
I worked nights at Mcclellan AFB, and lived seven miles east of the yard at Granite Bay. I woke to immediately recognize the soundtrack -- "Those are 250s, that was a 500, a couple more 250s..." Hundreds of explosions around the clock over a dozen days.
As late as 2016, Southern Pacific crews were still uncovering unexploded shells driven deep into the ground by the force of their exploding neighbors. That makes me wonder... how many are lingering, waiting for that perfect moment to make a splash!
That's not all that uncommon especially on boat trailers. They get backed into the water where the wheel bearings get a good soaking and then get pulled back out again. Over and over. After awhile the bearings will lose grease, overheat and seize. This is the result.
On a boat trailer, you must check and repack the wheel bearings every now and then - much more often than on a car.
And if you're in California this time of year it probably means you just started a wildfire.
ReplyDeleteI suppose tracking was getting to be a bitch
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Bearing fluid???? Must be a California or Tennessee thing. We call it Axle grease I assisted my late father in greasing bearings enough over the years.
ReplyDeleteBesides repacking the hub with some grease, how 'bout adding some air to that tire?
ReplyDeleteWe grew-up in the foothills near the massive Southern Pacific switch-yard in Roseville California.
ReplyDeleteOne hobby was parking near the tracks coming down from the Sierra Nevada mountains.
We often saw railroad cars with glowing red hubs from dragging brakes.
Controlling the speed of a million ton of train requires a delicate hand on the notch.
By-the-by, in the early 1970s, a load of bombs caught fire, causing evacuation, and blowing houses off foundations a mile from the Roseville yard.
I worked nights at Mcclellan AFB, and lived seven miles east of the yard at Granite Bay.
I woke to immediately recognize the soundtrack -- "Those are 250s, that was a 500, a couple more 250s..."
Hundreds of explosions around the clock over a dozen days.
As late as 2016, Southern Pacific crews were still uncovering unexploded shells driven deep into the ground by the force of their exploding neighbors.
That makes me wonder... how many are lingering, waiting for that perfect moment to make a splash!
Low tyre pressure?
ReplyDeleteThat's not all that uncommon especially on boat trailers. They get backed into the water where the wheel bearings get a good soaking and then get pulled back out again. Over and over. After awhile the bearings will lose grease, overheat and seize. This is the result.
ReplyDeleteOn a boat trailer, you must check and repack the wheel bearings every now and then - much more often than on a car.
I don't have a boat trailer but if I did I'd have Bearing Buddy hub caps on it.
DeleteI thought that was the blinker fluid light.
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