I put bearing buddies on mine and keep a grease gun with wheel bearing grease in it. When the spring loaded plunger on the bearing buddy sinks in, I hit it with a couple shots of grease. I also put the 5.30x12 trailer tires/wheels on it instead of the 4.80x8 that came on it. It's been across the US from east to west and north to south behind my '84 GL 1.9L without any problems. Even loaded down with almost 800lbs of gear when I moved. No problems, just took my time accelerating and made it fine, 60 to 65 mph.
Greg McKinney SOAR – Simons Organization for Animal Rights www.soardoggyrescue.org
-----Original Message----- From: Vanagon Mailing List [mailto:vanagon@gerry.vanagon.com] On Behalf Of Tom Buese Sent: Monday, November 14, 2016 2:10 PM To: vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM Subject: Re: Utility trailer benefits...yay What Mark said! I have the HF w/ the 12" wheels & have towed it across the country several times w/ o incident, but have had the wheel bearings repacked before the last 3500 mile tow in the Winter in my 2wd Westy moving to Maine from Utah. YMMV On Mon, Nov 14, 2016 at 2:57 PM, vw_van_fan_Mark <madvws@cox.net> wrote: > Yes I would avoid small 8" wheels but you can get 12" wheel trailers > at Harbor Fright. That is what I would get, and I have 2 of them now. > The heavy duty with 5 lug bolts. Spend the extra $100 or whatever for 12" > heavy duty. > > Mark > > pcking wrote: > >> ........ >> Wheel size is important. Small utility trailers like the ones from >> Harbor Freight (I have one) and Northern Tool are limited to 45 mph >> by the wheel size. You want car size wheels and bearings to run at highway speeds. >> >> >>
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