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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Trip McNeely" data-source="post: 33470" data-attributes="member: 728"><p>I got lucky when I had one go out. I had been fishing about an hour from town with my Dad. I had my old hunting rig pulling the boat so I usually don't drive more than 60mph with it. Stopped at a convenience store and when I started accelerating on the on-ramp on I-94 we heard a weird clunk and a metal grinding sound. I looked in the rear view and my tire was sitting all kittywhompus. Lucky for me I was going slowly and pulled over right away so I didn't do any damage to the spindle or rim. When I touched the hub it burned my hand it was that hot. I poured water on it and it literally sizzled. I'm not incredibly mechanical but over the years have learned enough out of necessity to get by. To this day I always check my hubs when I trailer a distance as I was told by our shop mechanic at the time, that if a bearing is starting to go the hub will get hot when in motion. He also told me bearings on boat trailers tend to go more often because they are repeatedly submerged and water can get inside the hub and leads to bearing failure more quickly. especially if they aren't re-greased often. Also the warmed up metal from trailering your boat being dunked into cool waters may lead to early failure as well. I also now use bearing buddies on my boat trailer as well</p></blockquote><p></p>