re: When to replace trailer bearings? (Bass pic added)

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Never used a press. Just a punch and a hammer.

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Me, too. I didn't have a press. Changed out bearings and races on riding mowers. I put bearing buddies on my boat trailer and made sure that I kept them loaded with grease. Kept a grease gun with the spare tire and always kept the bearings pressured up to keep out the water. Never had a bearing fail or go bad for 15 years when I finally sold that rig, and I had pulled it all over the southeast to Lake Eufaula, Santee-Cooper, Lake Gaston, Fontana, and countless trips to our local lakes. Fished a tournament on Gaston and one of our club members had a bearing fail while on the way. Idiot had never greased them and didn't have bearing buddies on his rig. Ate up the hub and damaged the axle. His trailer tire was wobbling like a drunk leaving the bar.