Sniff! I'm not at Daytona...

[K3 Chris Onwiler]

   
     I personally want to write off this entire year and get on to what is next. There have been so many things both in and outside of racing that have been trying to get me to quit racing, but I don't want to quit, so I just stumbled thru this year just to stay involved.

Wow.  You, me and Diver should form a team.  We could call it Ladylucksux Racing... :'( ;D

[Super Dave]

Hey, if it weren't for bad luck....

Ok, Mike, then you probably have 6k# axles.  Still has me curious.  Seems like usually you get an 8 lug wheel then with those axles, but I could be wrong.

Kevin Hanson went through like five tires and wheels going to Sears this year.  I think I was related to the hubs or something.  Did you go through the bearings before the trip?

[GSXR RACER MIKE]

Hey, if it weren't for bad luck....

Ok, Mike, then you probably have 6k# axles.  Still has me curious.  Seems like usually you get an 8 lug wheel then with those axles, but I could be wrong.

Kevin Hanson went through like five tires and wheels going to Sears this year.  I think I was related to the hubs or something.  Did you go through the bearings before the trip?

     I don't go thru the bearings like I should, but I do lubricate them thru the grease zerks.

     It amazes me the troubles myself and others  have had with trailers. You would think that this wouldn't be so difficult to get right, especially when you pay the extra money for the so called better equipment? Along with all the things that Cargomate screwed up when they built my trailer back in '99, these wheel problems just add insult to injury, even if it wasn't their fault. This being my 1st enclosed trailer (of 4 years) it has been a definate learning experience.

[Super Dave]

Haven't gone through your bearings?

Go jack up your trailer to get the wheels off the ground.  I'd bet that if you pull the top of the tire, you'll find movement in the hub on the axle.  Probably part of the problem.  All of that movement would have put a vibration that could have caused the lugs to back off.  

It was a long trip.  Probably not taking it slowly.

Just putting grease into the bearings will not set the bearings.  Imagine having a loose steering head and only packing grease in a loose steering head.  That's what you might have.

[K3 Chris Onwiler]

A racer who doesn't know how to inspect, re-pack and adjust wheel bearings on a trailer? :o  See Dave!  That's why you have a school and I don't.  I would never even have thought that we weren't all just born with that knowledge already implanted in our brains...