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Originally Posted by Motor31
I'd get new tires ASAP. Those have been sitting for years in one spot and they are more than 6 years old. That means they are very likely to have been set with the rubber drying out in contact with the ground and the sidewalls brittle. I would not assume they will make a 100 mile trip and the results of losing a tire can be very expensive should it pop on the road.
Second situation is the bearings on each wheel. I'd feel more comfortable having them changed out for the same reason, just sitting for years. The races may have become brinelled, indented, and the grease dry.
Make sure you grease each suspension point before it moves as well.
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Thanks for the reply Motor... I thought I recalled that you can't do anything with the sealed nevrlube (sp?) bearings on these units.... Don't they have a lifetime guarantee? But, I agree and hadn't really thought about the grease/suspension part. I'm leaning towards new tires also, and probably putting a TST monitoring system on them at the same time. We're taking the tires off & the brakes apart during the inspection so we'll see what everything looks like then. Want to make sure the tire jack is on the spring assembly not the axel when we do that.
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