How often do you clean your wheel bearings?

[rem_pss308]

should I be taking my bearings apart, and inspecting them? then repacking them.

I have a bearing buddies. and shoot some grease in them after a couple of trips to the river. ( 5 miles )

If so , how often, and when should the bearings be replaced?

[captain planet]

My boat trailer sits most of the summer but is in and out of the water 2 to 3 times a weekend. I do my bearings every 2 years. I have bearing buddies on them. I have yet to find water in them when I repack them.

[ahhudgins]

Same here. I only tow my boat once or twice to and from the lake each year. The trailer gets backed into the water twice each weekend and then sits during the week. I have the bearing buddies and will shoot some grease in them if I have to haul it home to work on some thing. When I bring it home for the winter I clean out all of the old grease and repack them. That's one less thing to worry about in the spring.

[Jerseydave]

should I be taking my bearings apart, and inspecting them? then repacking them.

I have a bearing buddies. and shoot some grease in them after a couple of trips to the river. ( 5 miles )

If so , how often, and when should the bearings be replaced?

I did mine at the end of each season.......a few of the bearings were bad each time too. But it was a heavy boat (Formula 303 SR-1) at around 7500 lbs. plus trailer weight.

[Thrall]

I'm normally very prompt on all PM's, but in the 8 years I had my 190, tandem axle, I never pulled the hubs off and re-packed the bearings. I did grease the bearing buddies a couple times a year for general use and once each way on long trips.
Trailer probably had 20k miles on it at least while I owned it.
Not very responsible, but they held up.

If you only tow it 5 miles each way, I'd just keep up with greasing them every say 100 trips to the lake and you should be fine!
Make it a winter project to pullthem apart and replace the bearings if teh trailer has alot of miles on it, otherwise grease it and run it.