Wheel Separation


Injun

Injun

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Yep. It happened to me. All I felt was a subtle vibration. Then, it smoothed out. I thought it was engine related. It felt similar to when the DPF needed to be pulled and baked on Girlie. When I got to my next stop, wheel group gone. Now, I understand how you can lose a trailer wheel group and not know it. Sorry for judging, @Duck .

I'll limp it to a shop to have the axle end chained up and then get it home.
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Injun said:
Yep. It happened to me. All I felt was a subtle vibration. Then, it smoothed out. I thought it was engine related. It felt similar to when the DPF needed to be pulled and baked on Girlie. When I got to my next stop, wheel group gone. Now, I understand how you can lose a trailer wheel group and not know it. Sorry for judging, @Duck .

I'll limp it to a shop to have the axle end chained up and then get it home.
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in all my years, i never even came close to have that happen to me.

do you recal (aprox) the location where you felt this?

let's hope that no one got the short end of those humming at them.
 
mndriver said:
I want to know how 10 wheel studs failed.
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Diagnosis from the shop that chained the axle is whoever did the recent brake job didn't tighten the inside parts of the two piece lug nuts all the way. The outside parts were tightened. There was no way for me to tell they were loose sitting still because the outer nuts were tight against the rim. The heads rattled around in the splines long enough to ream them out.
 
The vibration started and smoothed out when I was coming down a long hill with very little traffic and no houses around. I don't think anybody was hurt or any property damaged. I wasn't going faster than 45 mph (70 kmh for our Metric friends) at the time. That's still more than fast enough to kill somebody.

I'm about done with the piss-poor maintenance practices at this company.
 
Injun said:
Yep. It happened to me. All I felt was a subtle vibration. Then, it smoothed out. I thought it was engine related. It felt similar to when the DPF needed to be pulled and baked on Girlie. When I got to my next stop, wheel group gone. Now, I understand how you can lose a trailer wheel group and not know it. Sorry for judging, @Duck .

I'll limp it to a shop to have the axle end chained up and then get it home.
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Whoa! Glad it was just some vibration and a bit of surprise. Don't blame you for being upset over slipshod maintenance.
 
Injun said:
Diagnosis from the shop that chained the axle is whoever did the recent brake job didn't tighten the inside parts of the two piece lug nuts all the way. The outside parts were tightened. There was no way for me to tell they were loose sitting still because the outer nuts were tight against the rim. The heads rattled around in the splines long enough to ream them out.
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Inners and outers? Don't miss them one bit! Although it takes a bit of talent to get the outers tight enough to stay that way if the Inners were loose.
 
Injun said:
Yep. It happened to me. All I felt was a subtle vibration. Then, it smoothed out. I thought it was engine related. It felt similar to when the DPF needed to be pulled and baked on Girlie. When I got to my next stop, wheel group gone. Now, I understand how you can lose a trailer wheel group and not know it. Sorry for judging, @Duck .

I'll limp it to a shop to have the axle end chained up and then get it home.
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I think it’s everyone’s worst fear. I’m glad you’re okay.
Thanks for posting what happened. Reading the responses may help prevent another one.
 
Mine was caused by a retard in Spokane or Seattle or wherever that trailer's previous puller had a hub seal replaced. Over tightened the bearing, according to the guy who came out of Pierre to chain it up.

I picked that trailer up via repower in Rapid City.

It was just a thump. No vibrations leading up to it. Just a thump like my case of water fell off the bed onto the floor. I turned the light on and looked but couldn't figure out what fell, so I pulled into the Pilot in Murdo, SD to see if something fell off the reefer unit or if I hit a large bird or whatever. Saw only one pair of duals in the left mirror when I was turning.

Dropped the trailer & bobtailed back west to make sure they didn't end up in the highway but never found 'em.
 
Duck said:
Mine was caused by a retard in Spokane or Seattle or wherever that trailer's previous puller had a hub seal replaced. Over tightened the bearing, according to the guy who came out of Pierre to chain it up.

I picked that trailer up via repower in Rapid City.

It was just a thump. No vibrations leading up to it. Just a thump like my case of water fell off the bed onto the floor. I turned the light on and looked but couldn't figure out what fell, so I pulled into the Pilot in Murdo, SD to see if something fell off the reefer unit or if I hit a large bird or whatever. Saw only one pair of duals in the left mirror when I was turning.

Dropped the trailer & bobtailed back west to make sure they didn't end up in the highway but never found 'em.
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That shit out in one of them fields waiting to be discovered by the post apocalypse version of Lewis and Clark.
 
Injun said:
Yep. It happened to me. All I felt was a subtle vibration. Then, it smoothed out. I thought it was engine related. It felt similar to when the DPF needed to be pulled and baked on Girlie. When I got to my next stop, wheel group gone. Now, I understand how you can lose a trailer wheel group and not know it. Sorry for judging, @Duck .

I'll limp it to a shop to have the axle end chained up and then get it home.
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