greygoos wrote: What did you use to skin the roof?
lgatlin wrote:Interesting - I'm looking forward to seeing more. We've built a nice vardo, but I would love something very small/light
pchast wrote:So far, in my experience, the hubs hold up quite well with periodic maintenance.
We have done about 10000 miles so far.
Crawdaddy wrote:pchast wrote:So far, in my experience, the hubs hold up quite well with periodic maintenance.
We have done about 10000 miles so far.
That's good to hear because my plan was to take it up to New Mexico, 900 miles. I packed the bearings when I was putting it together. On test runs at highway speed the hub's get warm but not too hot to touch.
pchast wrote:Crawdaddy wrote:pchast wrote:So far, in my experience, the hubs hold up quite well with periodic maintenance.
We have done about 10000 miles so far.
That's good to hear because my plan was to take it up to New Mexico, 900 miles. I packed the bearings when I was putting it together. On test runs at highway speed the hub's get warm but not too hot to touch.
I've not had the hubs get warmer than a few degrees over ambient. I check at every stop.
What tire pressure are you running? How is your alignment to the hitch? Resist adding extra grease to the hub or using a 'bearing buddy'. Are you backing off the nut to add your carter pin about 1/8 to 1/4 turn? You don't want the wheel to rattle but it should be loose.
With too much grease or too tight compression, bearings will heat up, wear.
pchast wrote:Ours is the 1720lb HF trailer at less than half the designed weight. We run 30psi in our
original tires with a 560lb total weight.
I pack the bearings full so that grease is pushing through by hand and install them in the
empty and clean hub. It sounds like you have everything right.
The only other thing I can think of to check is the axle alignment to the trailer hitch. You
should have an equal measurement to the hub inner bearing location on both sides of the axle.
lgatlin wrote:So what are the total measurements of the platform for the TD? I also see you have a fair amount of headroom - what is the interior height at the peak? It seems very roomy! It won't be much of a challenge to get my old man to start a new project, he seems a little forlorn now that our first build is pretty much complete - at least his part is (I still have interior paint embellishments to go). I notice also that your roof doesn't seem to be insulated - I am interested to hear how warm it stays in the winter -- the main time we'd use ours would be winter, so I am anticipating doing an insulated roof as well as sides.
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