When Ames stores were liquidating their stuff last year, wifey bought one of those Bell trailers, seats two littl'uns. I woulda preferred a Burley, but the Bell was cheap and available.
Now I am having some issues as I trail the kids around in this thing. there is so much play in one of the hubs that it makes the trailer shimmy and wobble, with the slightest change in direction or acceleration. At speed it is not comforting.
The rims are steel, the hubs use what appear to be cartridge bearings, on stub axles. There is a retaining clip that holds the bearings in - it looks like there is just a bit too much play. So ... has anyone fixed one of these up before? Are there replacement axles for trailers? I suppose I could get a pair of front hubs and re-build the wheels, but I would need stub axles long enough to protrude through the mount on the frame of the trailer.
When Ames stores were liquidating their stuff last year, wifey bought one of those Bell trailers, seats two littl'uns. I woulda preferred a Burley, but the Bell was cheap and available.
Now I am having some issues as I trail the kids around in this thing. there is so much play in one of the hubs that it makes the trailer shimmy and wobble, with the slightest change in direction or acceleration. At speed it is not comforting.
The rims are steel, the hubs use what appear to be cartridge bearings, on stub axles. There is a retaining clip that holds the bearings in - it looks like there is just a bit too much play. So ... has anyone fixed one of these up before? Are there replacement axles for trailers? I suppose I could get a pair of front hubs and re-build the wheels, but I would need stub axles long enough to protrude through the mount on the frame of the trailer.
I recommend you contact Bell by phone and discuss the problem with them.
Using thin steel washers to shim the axle might help reduce the play if there is no adjustment possible.
yes, there is no adjustment possible. What you suggest with the shim is what I have done, but as you can imagine, the shim doesn't correct the core issue which is a poor bearing. Interesting, there is considerable difference in play between the two wheels. Maybe one of them has a manufacture defect.
I will contact Bell, thanks.
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When Ames stores were liquidating their stuff last year, wifey bought one
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those Bell trailers, seats two littl'uns. I woulda preferred a Burley,
but
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the Bell was cheap and available.
Now I am having some issues as I trail the kids around in this thing.
there
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is so much play in one of the hubs that it makes the trailer shimmy and wobble, with the slightest change in direction or acceleration. At speed
it
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is not comforting.
The rims are steel, the hubs use what appear to be cartridge bearings, on stub axles. There is a retaining clip that holds the bearings in - it
looks
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like there is just a bit too much play. So ... has anyone fixed one of these up before? Are there replacement axles for trailers? I suppose I could get a pair of front hubs and re-build the wheels, but I would need stub axles long enough to protrude through the mount on the
frame
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of the trailer.
I recommend you contact Bell by phone and discuss the problem with them.
Using thin steel washers to shim the axle might help reduce the play if there is no adjustment possible.
