5keepers
Your Rig Sucks
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- Mar 20, 2005
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- Kingsport, TN
Trailer spindle assy in Concord
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5keepers
Your Rig Sucks
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- Mar 20, 2005
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- Kingsport, TN
Nope, spindle is destroyed. TSC axle it looks like
Tacoma747
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- Mar 20, 2005
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- Winston-Salem
Don't the spindles weld on? How you going to do that on the side of the road?
If you are not hauling anything maybe you can pull the tire and strap that axle up...
If you are not hauling anything maybe you can pull the tire and strap that axle up...
5keepers
Your Rig Sucks
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- Mar 20, 2005
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- Kingsport, TN
I have Robert coming to get my truck and take it back to Shelby. I'm gonna limp the empty trailer home on the rear wheels only. I was going to swap the axle out but all the ubolt nuts are spot welded and the leaf spring bolts are too. Not a lot of choices at this point as the end is Fubar'd and I need to get home.
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jds97Wrangler
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- Oct 19, 2008
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- Mccleansville, NC
For future reference grease is your friend!
userbmx1315
builds more then wheels
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- Feb 8, 2008
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- Bessemer City, NC
theres a guy on craigslist that has 8 more 5lug axles with brakes. 75bucks complete.
nice guy. i picked up 2 of them. lives in hendersonville? its up 49.
nice guy. i picked up 2 of them. lives in hendersonville? its up 49.
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- Archer Lodge
i sure hope you greased the rest of the spindles before you continued on ?
5keepers
Your Rig Sucks
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- Mar 20, 2005
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- Kingsport, TN
I greased all 4 hubs last month. Maybe 350 miles ago. There was plenty on the tire when I stopped. I think that axle was a little bent since new as it constantly chopped the tire. It will be straight now.
5keepers
Your Rig Sucks
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- Mar 20, 2005
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- Kingsport, TN
The other 3 were cool as a cucumber when I stopped.
nctom
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- Dec 9, 2008
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- CONCORD NC
Axle surgeons makes house calls.
5keepers
Your Rig Sucks
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- Mar 20, 2005
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- Kingsport, TN
I wish Hendersonville was closer. I have a 1000 mile trip to Monteagle next weekend so there is a time crunch. I'm looking for used stuff today.
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- Mar 17, 2005
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- N. N. Raleigh, NC
The easy lube axles are good and bad at the same time.
Good in that it makes keeping things lubed easy.
Bad in that its easy to forget to actually check the condition of things.
I still throw the floor jack under and jack each wheel and spin it by hand to feel how it spinning over, check for any bearing slop etc.. Hard to feel the slop with weight on it.
Good in that it makes keeping things lubed easy.
Bad in that its easy to forget to actually check the condition of things.
I still throw the floor jack under and jack each wheel and spin it by hand to feel how it spinning over, check for any bearing slop etc.. Hard to feel the slop with weight on it.
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- Mar 13, 2005
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- Raleigh, NC
Here's the thing about looseness, though: If you assemble the hub according to the Dexter instructions, there's no way it won't be loose as hell when you're done. I put mine together a tad tighter than what Dexter says you're "supposed" to do, and they're still sloppy.