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Location: Roseau | Anyone have a estimate what it would cost to have a seal replaced on a ranger trailer with oil bath hubs?
Wondering if it is worth doing it myself?
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Location: Kodiak, AK | It's a piece of cake if you're familiar with doing bearings yourself. It's just like pressing in a bearing race; press/punch it out and press/punch a new one back in. |
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Location: Duluth, MN | Yep, Its not too tough, just make sure not to over fill them!!!!
Also since you have it part you may as well change the two O rings for the plastic widow as well. I had a couple that leaked there. |
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| I have been through this. Call Charlie Smith at the Ranger trailer factory. Great Guy!! Give him the year and serial # of your trailer to make SURE you get the correct parts. Check the width of the stainless steel seal sleeve, make sure it is the SAME width as old one before you cut old one off. I used a small, very sharp chisel to cut off old sleeve, go slow & easy. Change O-ring and use a little red silicone on O-ring before you install new sleeve. I used a piece of pipe to tap sleeve on. |
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Location: tHe LaKe Of PrIoR, mN | why does everyone think you have to get ranger specific seals? I have been running seals from the local auto parts store just brought the old ones with and they matched them up got a few hundred miles on them no issues at all
I highly recommend using the lucas brand hub oil Its slow filling but the stuff works good I run water in a 5 gallon pail as hot as my heater makes so it flows better when filling the hubs
Another trick i did the last time was filled the bearing cap with oil quick popped it on the hub before it could spill made filling go much quicker |
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| It is not necessary to use Ranger brand, it is a must to get the correct outside diameter, the correct inside diameter, and the correct width, before you remove the old ones. Otherwise, you will be in trouble. And there are many, many sizes for various applications. |
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Location: Kodiak, AK | You do need to make sure you get the proper hub parts and procedures...and that's most easily done through Ranger. Call them with your serial number and year and they'll get you exactly what you need. They aren't "Ranger" brand seals, but there's two different brands of hubs they use.... UFP and Tie-Down. I have UFP and they need to filled to the absolute top. The Tie-Down are half full.
For filling them, I use one of those oil cans with the thumb lever that pumps out a squirt...just squirt a shot into the hub one at a time, and it'll fill even with cold oil. I tried to find Lucas locally, but coudln't so I've got Valvoline in them right now. Once I get to Kodiak I'll drain them and use Lucas, but any good 50 wt oil will work in them. |
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