Great for marine applications; the stainless steel construction provides the best in corrosion resistance. The design makes Bearing Buddy an easy way to protect your bearings by keeping water out and ensuring enough grease is in the hub.
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Replace your existing grease cap with a Bearing Buddy to ensure a safe, easy way to monitor and control the level of grease in your axle hub. To adjust the amount of grease in the hub, use a grease gun to add more through the appropriate fitting. Adding grease moves the Bearing Buddy spring-loaded piston outward 1/8".
The O-ring inside the barrel of the Bearing Buddy maintains a seal from the outside. The interior of the Bearing Buddy is pressurized, preventing water from entering the barrel and diluting the grease.
An automatic pressure-relief feature is built into the Bearing Buddy. When the device is full, grease will seep around the edges of the piston and into the barrel. This prevents overfilling that can damage the inner seal.
Videos are provided as a guide only. Refer to manufacturer installation instructions and specs for complete information.
Hello everybody, this is Jeff at etrailer.com. Today, we're gonna take a look at the Bearing Buddy Stainless Steel Bearing Protectors for the 1.98 inch diameter hub bore, and this is for a pair. Now, these will replace the grease caps that's on your axle hub, provide your trailer bearings with premium protection. This will prevent wheel bearing failures by providing an easy way to control the grease volume in your axle hub. These will help keep water and dirt out of your hubs and bearings, and it allows boat trailer wheels to be completely submerged, and these will help stop corrosion and pitting on your bearings. If you noticed in the middle here, they provide an easily accessible grease zerk fitting, this makes adding grease to your bearings very quick and simple.
Basically, it'll maintain slight, controlled pressure, about three psi, with the spring loaded piston in here, and it prevents the water from entering the hub. It'll also prevent overfilling and the rear seal damage with the automatic pressure relief feature. Basically, the grease will seep around the piston edges and into the barrel when this is full. Now, these parts here are constructed of stainless steel, this will ensure a longer lasting fit than your plastic or aluminum ones that are out there. If you noticed, it does include the rubber protective covers, after these are installed, you just put those over there, and it'll keep anything from getting into there, helps protect it.
Now, to install these they do install easily by putting on your hub and then using a block of wood against the Bearing Buddy, and then tapping it into place with a hammer. These parts are made in the USA, as we mentioned, these will fit 1.980 inch diameter hub bore, and these are also available in other diameters to fit your hub size, we do sell those separately on our website. This one here is designed to work with the outer bearing model numbers of L-44643, L-44649, and L-44640. These parts are commonly found on the 2,000 pound, 2,500 pound, and 3,500 pound Dexter Axles. But that should do it for the review on the Bearing Buddy Stainless Steel Bearing Protectors for the 1.98 inch diameter hub bore, and it's for a pair..
Average Customer Rating: 5.0 out of 5 stars (5 Customer Reviews)
Great for marine applications; the stainless steel construction provides the best in corrosion resistance. The design makes Bearing Buddy an easy way to protect your bearings by keeping water out and ensuring enough grease is in the hub.The stainless Bearing Buddies are really well built and fit perfectly on my Triton jet ski trailer. Time will tell if they keep water out of the bearing!
I still haven’t installed the grease buddies as I am waiting for other parts. I am very happy with the speed of delivery and the courtesy the people at etrailer have showed me.
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