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Great for marine applications; the stainless steel construction provides the best in corrosion resistance. Blue auto-check ring provides an easy, safe way to monitor and control the level of axle hub grease.
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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" and reveals a blue auto-check ring so you know it's full.
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, revealing a blue ring. This prevents overfilling that can damage the inner seal.
You can manually check the grease level in your Bearing Buddy by checking the blue auto-check ring. If it has receded flush with the steel retaining ring, more grease is needed. If you can see the blue ring, the hub is properly filled.
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 2.717 hub bore and it is for a quantity of two. Now these are great for marine applications. The Bearing Buddy design is an easy way to protect your bearings by keeping water out and ensuring enough grease is in the hub. These do replace your refactory grease caps that are on your axle hub and provide your trailer bearings with premium protection. Basically these will prevent wheel bearing failure by providing an easy way to control the grease volume in your axle hub.
And it does allow boat trailer wheels to be completely submerged. Does help stop corrosion and pitting on the bearings. If you notice right here, it provides a easily accessible grease zerk fitting, makes adding grease to the bearings very quick and simple. Basically, when they're installed with the cover on, you just pop the cover off, you see the zerk fitting, attach your grease gun and pump the grease in. It does maintain a slide control pressure about 3 PSI with the spring loaded piston, prevents water from entering the hub and with this blue ring right here, it does allow visual monitoring of the grease levels using that blue indicator ring.
Basically that ring will sit flush with the top of the cylinder when it's full. And if the ring that goes below the top, you just add pumping some more grease to move the piston outward. This does prevent overfilling and rear seal damage with the automatic pressure relief feature. Basically the grease will seep around the piston edges and into the barrel when it's full. As we mentioned, these are constructed of stainless steel, so they do ensure longer lasting fit than your plastic or aluminum products that are out there.
And it does come with the rubber protective covers that you just, once you fill it with grease, just put the covers over it and it keeps anything from getting into there. And these do install easily by putting on the hub. Basically you take out your off your grease cap, put these on the hub, put a block of wood on top of 'em, and then use a hammer and tap against it so the Bearing Buddy installs evenly all the way around. These parts are made in the USA. Few specs, again, they are designed to fit the 2.717 hub bore diameter.
Now these also come available in other diameters to fit your hub size. This part here works with the outer bearing model numbers 14124 and 14125A, which are commonly found on the 5,200 pound to 7,000 pound Dexter axles. But that should do it for the review on the Bearing Buddy stainless steel bearing protectors for the 2.717 hub bore.
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