[Rhodes22-list] How to go from Single Axle Triad to a Zero AxleTriad

[Herb Parsons]

I narrowly missed a similar situation where I burned out a set of wheel
bearings. Fortunately, someone noticed the smoke from my hub, and told
me about it.

New Trailering Rule:
Bearings get regreased EVERYTIME the trailer comes out of the water.

Herb Parsons

S/V O'Jure
  1976 O'Day 25

S/V Reve de Papa
  1971 Coronado 35


>>> raz01 at mac.com 9/29/2004 10:34:17 PM >>>
By driving N on I-95 at 2 a.m. towing your trailer + rhodes, feeling a

heavy, sudden jolt pulling back on your big SUV and looking out the 
passenger side mirror and seeing a light brighter than the center of 
the sun with the sparks of a thousand welders spraying everywhere.  
When I got (mostly) over to the shoulder and to a stop and ventured out

into the night to see what was left, the entire, I mean entire, right 
side tire and rim was gone (Miami CSI wouldn't have found it), and only

35 degrees worth of my hub remained together with just two toasted stud

bolts looking at me while crackling the surrounding air with heat 
vapors.  Near as I can tell, the hub or rim on that side just came 
apart and disappeared into the night sky and caused the trailer to fall

down to the front-to-back rail on the right hand side and operated as a

one-wheel and one-skid boat carrying device.  When I called AAA and 
tried to explain as carefully as I could my predicament, they called 
back to comfort me with the promise that someone was coming to fix my 
(non-existent) tire;  I tried to explain that there was no tire, no 
rim, and no hub.  And that I was thinking more on the lines of a 
Sikorsky not a tire-changer.  They later located a wrecker, who seemed

to take it all in stride:  "let me come out there and see if I can 
scoop it up..." just like it was a dropping or something; but "scoop it

up" is what he did.

raz
Rocky Rhodes
Rock Hall MD

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