etrailer Trailer Idler Hub Assembly Review and Installation

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Hi there, trailer owners. Today we're going to be taking a look and showing you how to replace etrailer's line of idler hubs.This is what a typical idler hub looks like when it's installed. One of the things you'll notice about the idler hub is that there's no braking components on it. That's why it's called an idler. This is just a place for you to install your wheel onto, so that way when you're hauling your trailer it can rotate on the spindle here and give you additional load-carrying capacity on your trailer because you've got another axle there supporting the weight. Oftentimes with your axle head idler hubs, if there's more than one axle, there will be brakes on our other axle.

So you typically are only going to be replacing the idlers or have to replace the idlers on one of those axles. On your smaller trailers that don't have other brakes, you may just have idler hubs on it and that's it because you don't have any braking components.Included with your idler hub kit, you're going to receive the hub assembly, and inside the assembly, you'll have your races for your bearings preinstalled into it. Depending on if you've got the pre-greased or not, you're going to get bearings regardless, but your bearings may already be installed inside the hub if you've got the pre-greased version. If not, you'll receive bearings with it that you'll have to lubricate and install yourselves as well as the grease seal for the backside of the hub. Again, if it's pre-greased, that'll be pre-installed; if not, you'll have to install that seal.The pre-greased versions are going to be prepacked with marine grease, so they're ready to go out of the box for any of your trailer applications, whether you're putting it on just a utility trailer or if you're going to be putting it on a boat or jet ski trailer.

And lastly, you'll receive a dust cap. The dust cap comes in two different styles depending on the kit you got. You can either get the E-Z Lube version, which is what we have here, that has a removable rubber center so you can lubricate a Zerk fitting behind it for your bearings. And then there's just a regular dust cap version that is a solid metal cover. There's also two different finishes we can get our hub in.

You can either get the black powder coat finish, like you see here, or you could get the galvanized finished, whichever one you would prefer. The galvanized finished is zinc plated, and both of them are going to offer protection against rust and corrosion.Now you're probably wondering how do you know which hub kit am I going to need for my trailer These kits are set up for the most common sizes and the starting point that you'll want to use to determine which hub you're going want is your axle's weight rating. So if you've got a 2000 pound axle or 3,500 pound, you'll want to verify that first and then you'll want to verify your bolt pattern. If you look down below in the product description on any of the pages for our bearing kits here, we'll have a chart that will assist you in measuring your bolt pattern to help you get the right one, because it does vary depending upon whether you have an even or uneven amount of studs.If you have an even amount of, it's pretty easy. You can just pick opposite studs and measure across them to get the bolt pattern number.

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