Wheel bearings

Make sure that before you start you have all the correct torque specs.

Ready to get started...

Removing the wheel

Removing the wheel end cap

Wheel end cap now gone, pull out the bearing and the hum will slide right off.

This wheel seal has seen better days...

Wheel seal now pulled, we then pulled the bearing out and inspected it.

Inspecting the brake shoes

Both brake shoes pulled...

Pulled the S-cam

 Ready to install wheel seal

Kieth pounding in wheel seal

Brakes reassembled

Torquing wheel bearings 

Reinstalling the wheel end cap

Ready to reinstall the wheel

Checking wheel bearing play. Different truck, same concept. 

Pounding wheel seal. Different truck, same concept.

Truck brake failure

My dad just sent me this...the truck driver is his boss's dad.

"According to OSP Trooper Mark Jubitz, on May 4, 2012 at approximately 2:00 p.m. a 1996 Kenworth truck pulling a 53-foot semi-trailer loaded with 35,000 lbs of mixed farm products was northbound on Highway 197 approaching the intersection with Highway 30 on the east end of The Dalles. According to the truck's driver, (name removed to protect person...my lawyers made me do it), age 77, from Dufur, the truck's brakes failed to work and as he tried to control the truck and trailer, narrowly missing a parked vehicle on the shoulder and flipped onto its side. The truck and trailer slid through the intersection hitting several street signs, a lamp post and damaged 140 feet of guardrail in a wide gravel area on the west side of the highway."