Availability of Replacement Hubs for Homemade Trailer

Question:

Sure hope you can help here. I have an old, homemade trailer that I bought, and trying to get back on the road. The hubs it currently has is for Mobile Home wheels. Not only are Mobile home Tires hard to come by, they are not very well suited to a trailer either, as they are basically built for one time use only. The axle itself is Definitely not a Mobile Home axle, as it is far too short, and shows no signs of previous modification. So here is what I have, The Inner bearing on my hub, is a little hard to read, but it looks like, L68149? cant really tell on that last digit as the bottom is rubbed off. The Outer Bearing says L44649. Do you have a standard wheel hub that I can swap these out with? Lug pattern does not matter since I will just by new wheels to fit.

asked by: Steve H

Expert Reply:

If what you have are brake, not idler hubs, it sounds like you might be able to use a # AKHD-545-35-EZ-K hub/drum which uses a # L68149 inner and a # L44649 outer bearing. You can confirm this by using a digital caliper on your spindle, and check the journal surfaces of the spindle where the bearings would ride. The spindle surface where the inner bearing rides should be just below 1.378 inches and the surface where the outer bearing rides should be slightly less than 1.063 inches.

The # AKHD-545-35-EZ-K hub uses a 58846 grease seal, so the spindle surface where the grease seal rides should be about 1.719 inches.

expert reply by: Mike L