Just add a couple small dabs of Goop and let sit over night and you will be good...easy off if you just use a tiny couple dabsI would add sealant if you're going to salvage the current caps with dimples.
Just add a couple small dabs of Goop and let sit over night and you will be good...easy off if you just use a tiny couple dabsI would add sealant if you're going to salvage the current caps with dimples.
COUGH COUGH, rubber boots. jmoSo i made my last post, and i drove to the river to put my boat it. Boated around for a bit, yanked it and drove home. I was feeling pretty good. Then yesterday, I was walking around my driveway doing something else unrelated and saw this:
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I don't understand how they can be so snug fitting, then completely fall out in one short drive. I'm very tempted to solve this problem with a little 5200, luckily I don't have any right now.
Also I have never tried the "long" style. I've never even seen any like that before.
I hate to see you stress over such a simple fix, I'm sure you have better things to do and move on from this. If you need any help, please let me know. just saying.So i made my last post, and i drove to the river to put my boat it. Boated around for a bit, yanked it and drove home. I was feeling pretty good. Then yesterday, I was walking around my driveway doing something else unrelated and saw this:
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I don't understand how they can be so snug fitting, then completely fall out in one short drive. I'm very tempted to solve this problem with a little 5200, luckily I don't have any right now.
Also I have never tried the "long" style. I've never even seen any like that before.
I don't think my problem is thermal expansion. The bearings were nice and smooth when i repacked them. And my drive was a low speed drive with lots of stop and go traffic lights. Perfect setup for keeping your hubs cool. Plus you can see from the pic, plenty of air space in there. Also I did not scrape any rust out of the inner diameters of these hubs.
This is super annoying!
Yeah I'm about ready to give them a try, I'm out of other options. But where do you get them? I don't see any stores that have the normal caps, having rubber boots in stock?COUGH COUGH, rubber boots. jmo
Amazon, Ebay.Yeah I'm about ready to give them a try, I'm out of other options. But where do you get them? I don't see any stores that have the normal caps, having rubber boots in stock?
How much have you spent on caps and adhesive so far?Here's what I did. I don't know if it's going to work, and I suspect most of you aren't going to like it. But I feel like I was out of options. I took my last unused cap, I got it started.... not fully seated, just "in" all the way around, but still sticking out by about 1/8 to 1/4 of an inch.
THEN I went inside and looked for some kind of silicon sealant but what I found instead was a tube of liquid nails. So I wiped all the grease that squeezed out as best I could, then filled that gap all the way around with liquid nail.
I tapped the cap in and of course, most of the stuff squeezed right out. Most but not all. Some has to have stayed between the cap in the hub. None would have fallen inside the hub so this won't effect the bearings at all. It will either hold the cap in place. Or fail just as easy as the bare cap. I'll find out next time I go for a boat ride which may be Friday evening. If this does work, I suspect I'm going to have to do the same thing to the other side next time it falls out.
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Even if it doesn't work as an adhesive, it should still work as a filler, making it MUCH harder for the cap to "wiggle" out. And I'm not really concerned about getting ti off. Clearly these things are one time use so I'll just rip it to shreds if I have to. Plus the hubs are in great shape right now so I won't need to service them for a very long time. Given that I get about 2 boat rides in per year. But the state of the Medford Wellington Boat Ramp is a whole other side track.
If grease is squeezing out when cap is installed, I would suspect the bearing / cap space is over packed with grease. Maybe when they heat up, the pressure increase pushed the cap off.THEN I went inside and looked for some kind of silicon sealant but what I found instead was a tube of liquid nails. So I wiped all the grease that squeezed out as best I could, then filled that gap all the way around with liquid nail.