nola mike
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Coming back from the ramp, noticed a noise from the wheel. Managed to make it back home, looks like my bearing completely disintegrated. Worse, looks like there's some scoring on the spindle. Worse still, looks like I'll need to replace the whole axle to fix it right. I've seen a few complete axle assemblies with springs and all, which I think is the way to go. They all seem to be rated for 2k pounds though in the axle size that I need; boat is 1800#, which seems to be cutting it a bit close. Think I'm going to clean up the spindle and put on a new hub and bearing kit to make it to the offseason. You can see a bit of a bearing race on the tire in the pic