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Today we're gonna take a look at the Dexter Trailer Hub and Drum Assemblies.Now, there are several reasons why someone would want to change the hubs on their trailer. Either age, they're getting very old, the trailer's been sitting for a long time, moisture got inside, caused corrosion that way. Maybe the brake assembly itself locked up on you, it overheated that drum and we've got hot spots or cracking in it. Or you can have these machines where it can turn the drums, and you've just had it done so much that it's expanded too far, so where it's beyond the specification.Now, these drums are going work for 12-inch by two-inch brake assemblies. They're going be from the 52-hundred- up to the 7,000-pound axle, each one, and bearing kits rated for 35 hundred pounds. So a total of 7,000.Now, Dexter provides us with just about everything we're going to need.
We've got new lug nuts for our half-inch wheel studs. You got the new dust cap here and the easy-lube plug. Also, going to have two new bearings, inner and outer. And you're going to have your seal. So all in all, this is a way to completely replace all of these components, get it right back to factory fresh, and you'll have no problems with it heading down the road.Something else that I like, it's going to come with the eight lug nuts that we need, so we're not going to have to worry about our old ones if those we're cross threaded, if we had any kind of issues.
Everything's going to be fresh.Now, these offer heavy-duty iron construction. As you're putting them on, you can feel the weight and the density of them. And they're going to be designed to work with both the electric or hydraulic braking systems. And, as we can see right here, these are made right here in the United States.Now, to begin our replacement process, we're going to need to gather a few simple tools. Basically, we'll want a dead-blow hammer, a pair of channel locks, and needle-nose pliers.
These are really all we're going to need to get this replacement done.The first thing we need to do is get rid of our grease cap here on the end. Generally, we're going to tap outward. You can see that gap staring to increase. It'll pop off.Once that's out of the way, we've got a Cotter pin located right here. Get our Cotter pin out of there.Now, with our channel locks, we need to get ahold of this large nut here and get it removed.Now, as we take this apart, we want to salvage this washer right here.
This is our, kind of our thrust bearing there. And that's the only thing that doesn't come with our new drum assembly. We got new lug nuts, we've got a new cap, new bearings, new seals. This is that one component we want to be sure to hang on to when we put it back together.Now, we're just going to start working our hub assembly off. You see that old bearing. We're going to get rid of that.The brakes are kind of hanging up a little bit. We're going to be replacing those too, so I'm not too worried about them. So I'm just kind of using a pry bar just to get them worked off of here. And we'll slide it off.Now, as you can see, we've got all the grease off that spindle, got rid of all the old stuff. And this is our time to inspect it.We need to ensure, basically, that three main areas are in good shape. You got this ara here. This is going to be where the inner bearing rides. Nice and smooth, no issues there. Same thing out here, where our outer bearing goes.And then right in here on this wider area, you can see where it's real shiny there, that's where our seal is going to ride as it goes around. So we're just going to kind of rub our finger around there and make sure there's no nicks or dents or scratches or anything like that. What happens if we have that here is we fill this with grease, it's going to expand into our brakes, and that's not what we want.This one looks really good. If you have any discolored areas where it looks like it got hot, if you have any cracks that are running down through here, or if it looks like it's kind of been turned where the bearings have come apart and they're going to cause some issues, might be a candidate for replacement rather than just putting on hubs and drums.Now, the first step in getting our hub installed is going to be to pack our bearings. Now, you can do this by hand by just putting a big wad of grease in your hand there and then capturing it, forcing it in through here until it comes out of this upper portion. Or you can use a bearing packer, like what we've got her

[@josephboog]

Love it! Thank you.

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[@stevestudley5685]

Thank you.

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[@dumitruhaidau7807]

I didn’t see you putting that pin back

[@etrailer]

The old set up had a cotter pin to hold the nut in place. The new kits comes with a nut retainer clip to hold the nut in place.
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[@mitchdevarennes1337]

You did not mention anything about the races?

[@etrailer]

The races will come preinstalled in the hub assembly.
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