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"127.0.0.1" loopy@localhost wrote in message
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"Chris Lewis" wrote in message
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According to DaddyMonkey :
ya gotta be kidding us, right?

Heh. I just replaced a tire on a trailer, my first experience.
Never again...

[I had little choice, since the wheel bolts were rust-frozen _solid_ and
I couldn't get the wheel off. The trailer was out in the boonies.]

Installation is about the same as removal. Two people, two pry-bars,
big
hammer... BUT WAIT!... you're going to need some rubber lubricate...
liquid soap will work just fine.

Wish I had thought of that. Fortunately, I didn't wreck the tire.

i use a small butane torch.
heat up the bolts and wrench off with ease.
and if they don't, turn up the heat and melt em off....

We tried a torch. And a air-powered wrench (but it didn't have enough
pressure to really kick the bolt heads). You can't melt a bolt with
a torch like that.

Besides, shearing the heads off those bolts would have made the problem
worse. [These were hex bolts, not wheel nuts. Would have left me
with shorn off bolt inside the wheel hub. Ugh.]

And if the lug bolts are that rusty, and it was sitting long enough for tire
to dry-rot, what made you think there was any grease left in wheel bearing?
Unless it was real old style where you can pull off dust cap and grease with
wheel in place, and you did grease it, you were lucky wheel didn't seize up
and fail catastropically at highway speed when you pulled it out of there.

Only had a couple of Km to go, trailer very light, we went slow, had a chase
car watching for things falling off, and the wheels clearly had grease in 'em.
Yes, it did have dust caps, but didn't bother visually checking.

Even if the wheel had seized, nothing much would have happened. Very light
trailer (a smallish mobile sign), going very slow.

Yet another reason I give trailers as wide a berth as possible on the road.

Me too.
--
Chris Lewis, Una confibula non set est
It's not just anyone who gets a Starship Cruiser class named after them.