I agree! Can't change your own damn oil loose yer license. 🤣🤣🤣

Good job

This is exactly how I learned to pack bearings back in the early 70s...good job!

Don’t take that whole rear bearing out just squeeze grease in the grease fitting and you’re good to go That’s why it’s dry just pack the front like the instruction say

For the 1st time, I saw someone pack bearings the way I learned in high school in a class that doesn't exist anymore. Good job! 👍 PS I was in high school in the late 1960s and 70s.

Turbo that bad boy!!

camera man sucks

You don't need to take the bearings out and do all that. The blue stuff is just standard grease suitable for axles. All you do is put the wheels on and pump some more grease through the grease fitting which hits both bearings. I wouldn't mess with the seals or you're asking for things to leak.

There is a grease nipple on the back of the hub so you don't have to remove everything. You put a grease gun on it and pump grease in it

Looks like I found something I need to do for the used on I just bought.

What good bearings would you suggest to use? Could those OEM ones be replaced by a Japanese sealed ones?

Have a a steam cleaner in which I will also use thanks

7:25 And... there it is. Racism! that's why you're doing this. You present absolutely no evidence for why any of this is necessary, just conjecture and superstition. Comes from China, must be cheap crap? Meanwhile, lots of people in the comments giving you real-world reports that they own the same trailer, didn't go to any of this trouble, and have had no issues whatsoever with the "Chinese Smurf guts" that come stock. And by the way, your seals most likely leaked because you used *way* too much grease, which caused so much fluid friction and pressure that the excess grease expanded and burst your seals.

"packing grease" I have owned a dozen of these HF Trailers over the last 25 years, never changed the grease out till it was well worn after 5 years and never had issues... now I am not saying do not add grease, I am saying removing the blue bearing grease is not needed when new. The Blue Grease is a high-quality, multipurpose, extreme-pressure (EP), lithium grease for industrial equipment operating under heavy loads and at high temperatures. Best to just Inspect all the parts as you build it and after 100 miles check the hubs, after 3k miles swap the grease.

You need some latex gloves man. Rookie

Pretty cool, huh?

A couple of other channels also recommend that the bearings actually be replaced as they are VERY cheap, inferior ones from the factory (in China). Also, the corrosion is most likely due to the salty sea mist on the ship coming over from China. Another good idea is to either replace the hardware with grade 5 or grade 8 and use lock nuts, not lock washers. It won't take much road use to loosen them up and you'll end up with missing bolts and a serious issue on your hands. I plan on welding mine together after I true everything up, that will make for a VERY sold base for my teardrop trailer.

Yah this a great video. You actually show everything unlike alot of other vids out there. Keep up the good work ! Just a note innovate makes an oil pressure and temp gauge in one. Saving alot of space.

They tell you to clean out the shipping grease because it's not road worthy? What else did they cut corners on? Cheap, soft steel? I was thinking about buying a HF trailer. Now I'm not so sure.

This is the EXACT set up I’ve been wanting to get and after seeing your video I’ve finally got the confidence to knock it out and try it lol

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that rear bearing trick is something I'll never forget. ty

One informative and cool video.

i love the WW comment. i bet alot of people didn't get it. lol

*crenelations not castleations Thanks for the breakdown. Super helpful!

Its easy. Wipe out some of the original grease. Then start pumping quality grease onto the grease fitting. And use the trailer and pump grease as needed. Now the model i have has a grease valve fitting.

Are both bearings identical? I may as well replace all 4…

Great informative video. I wonder why they just didn't opt for the better grease? They are only reducing the cost by pennies and adding much more labour to the customer. I wonder if anyone has burned up their bearing by not changing the grease? My inner bearing was completely covered by grease out of the box and the entire assembly was much more packed with grease. Very interesting.... Lol. Have a nice day

You are better off getting regular wheel bearing grease because it is heavier duty and will protect better than just regular grease.

Tip when spraying brake cleaner, wear eye protection. I've had it splash off of what I was spraying and go back into my eye. Never again, that stuff is harsh.

I see a lot of comments suggesting bearing buddies I have seen a lot more problems with ruining the seals caused by bearing buddies than problems actually solved! Pack your bearings correctly with a good high quality grease and they rarely need to be looked at again until after many, many miles. Biggest issues with these small trailers is people wanting to run 80 miles an hour on these small 8" wheels, do you realize how many rpm's those bearings are spinning at those speeds with those small tires?

Outstanding video. Thanks for taking the time to teach this! You saved me a lot of trouble.

This product is trash. Anything from drivers choice that I have tried is trash

I take and put back on trailer without outer bearing, install nut on shaft, abruptly yank wheel/hub off, may take a couple of yanks but bearing and seal will come off normally unharmed.

When someone kind of knows what to do but has no idea why they are doing it or how a bearing works…. 😂

Where did you get the idea that this is shipping grease? When items are shipped for protection they are coated in oil. Not packed, assembled, and greased. You read the instructions wrong. What it says is “Whenever a hub is disassembled (if a hub on a new unit requires assembly or a hub is disassembled for maintenance), the following procedure must be obeyed. Then it lists the steps. I am on my second trailer. After selling the first. Never repacked the bearings. Don’t waste your time.

I'm 60 years old. I have never heard of cutting of a portion of the cotter pin.

Please don’t do what this dude does replacing the grease is fine but that’s all

where did you get the oil pressure switch and the coolant temp sensor at

Back when I got mine you had to pack the bearn thy where not in the hub mine is an 1982 model still going today not bad for a 40 year old trailer.

I absolutely need to do this to mine! Very informative sir! What about just replacing the bearings all together? And I've seen a lot of folks put on Bearing Buddies, thoughts? Lastly make dang well sure you put the lug nuts on correctly! Cone shape in, NOT the flat surface. From personal experience, it's an expensive screw up!

Is it really necessary to fill the hub and dust cap with grease?

I've owned two of these trailers, my father in law also owned one. NEVER had issues with bearings. Just seems like something that gets hyped up on the internet after a recall and now the helpful Ace Hardware folks say, "yep, in addition to cranking on 148 nuts and bolts, gotta repack those bearings..." with a cheap piece of plywood and some 2x4s, stock LED lights, and stock bearings on my rig- I've helped friends move, done 4-6 dump runs, two film shoots- and have yet to have a single failure/issue with it.

Very helpful and well done - Thanks! I wil do this the grease replacement right away, but do you think the titres are any good for other than local driving - like a hundred miles on the highway with moderate weight of a few hundred pounds - what did you do, tire-wise? Oh, and by the way, did you have any trouble with the lighting that comes with the trailer - mine does NOT work correctly at all and makes the whole dashboard in the car flash (honest, it's crazy, so i gotta figure out what the problem is now after going exactly by their wiring directions).

they get to the point at about 3:30

Thx u

wait are you on acid or is the bear on acid ?

For $1.09 I'd say it did great

Wooooooah its an XJ

Well see how long that repair last smh