Woe Is The Life Of Chasing Crappie/pics

[bee]

Today was the good and the bad. The good was the fishing. Another fine catch of Slabs. Around 70 today. I took a few white perch home for dinner. My new motor has been not holding place when trim is raised. I took a moment to adjust the setting and had a strange odor in my nose. Like something burning. Thought nothing of it and towed home. I went to look at the trim adjustment again and had that odor come back to me. As I walked around the boat I found the odor. Right side wheel bearings were gone. At least I was home. I always replace the bearings and seals in the spring. By gone I mean no bearings left at all. How I got home I don't know.

[crp4570]

Glad you made it home safe and congrats on a fine day catching.

[doggone]

That is some fishin' hole you got there.

I have had a couple times the spindle was cut halfway through.

[skeetbum]

I know how you got home. Glad it wasn't any worse, and those are some real nice fish. Makes the repair a bit easier.

[ifish]

Nice fish. That spindle sure looks rusty. Back seal blown for a while! At least your spindle did not get fried. Good luck and thanks for all the crappie pics. At least there is hope!!

[BluegillHunter]

I think you might need some bearing grease.

[scrat]

Nice crappie. I need to check my bearing grease more often myself. It displaces water which causes rust, lubricates, and is the life of trailer bearings. A set of Bearing Buddy's will also. Glad you made it home safely.

[kitchen96]

That was luck Bee both the fishing and the axle. That tire has been there for a while and didn't want to go.e off I guess.

[sinkermaker]

Nice catch Bee and glad you made it home. I need to check my bearings. Thanks for sharing

[M R Dux]

From the rust on the axle it looks like it might have been a serious lack of grease issue. Glad you made it home. I usually have something like that come up miles from the house.

The boat and trailer I sold last fall hadn't seen a ton of miles since I live so close to KY lake. I went several years just checking my bearing buddies and adding lithium grease occasionally. One Sunday afternoon I decided to jump in after church and put new rear seals and repack my trailer bearings. One side went flawless. When I tried to get the axle nut off the other side, it wouldn't budge! I ended up borrowing a socket big enough to use my impact gun on it. When it finally came off, I found out the nut had been cross-threaded from the factory from day one. Being Sunday, no tool rental places that might have a fine-thread die were open. I ended up finding one from a friend who is an electrical contractor. I chased the threads and got it back together but if that had happened on the side of the road somewhere, no telling what I would have gone thru to get it fixed.