Well. I figured I'd clean up a few things and make a trip to the dump yesterday. So I proceeded to start cleaning the yard and loading up garbage on the flat deck homemade 12 ft trailer. I got to the dump and weighed in on the scales. After weighing in I proceeded down the road to the trailer dump area. Just before I turned off the paved road onto the dirt road heading to the dump hill the trailer dropped down and I noticed the passenger tire bouncing down the road.
Wheel bearing let go. Hub totally separated. Now this thing is a good trailer but being homebuilt including the axle, what are my options to fix it when I have no clue what the axle came off of. So, I unhook the trailer, take a picture of the busted hub so I can try to match it up, run down the road to retrieve the tire and other half of the hub housing, and head down to the Napa store. The guy there was pretty good. Just with the picture of the hub part still mounted to the axle and the part still mounted to the tire, he was able to match up the axle to that of an 82-2005 cavalier(rear) So, I ordered the new hub bearing and will have to head back to the dump tomorrow to retrieve the trailer.
Wheel bearing let go. Hub totally separated. Now this thing is a good trailer but being homebuilt including the axle, what are my options to fix it when I have no clue what the axle came off of. So, I unhook the trailer, take a picture of the busted hub so I can try to match it up, run down the road to retrieve the tire and other half of the hub housing, and head down to the Napa store. The guy there was pretty good. Just with the picture of the hub part still mounted to the axle and the part still mounted to the tire, he was able to match up the axle to that of an 82-2005 cavalier(rear) So, I ordered the new hub bearing and will have to head back to the dump tomorrow to retrieve the trailer.