Throw away wheel hubs?

New Shorelander boat trailer decided to check the wheel bearing noisy on one side. No water but the inner race had gouges in it from what looks like when it was made. Anyway the inner race I cannot get any tool to even come close to removing the race there is hardly .030 of race sticking out. So the question is are they actually throw away hubs? Bought a new hub and regreased with Red and Tacky main reason to do it get good grease in it. Not knocking the trailer obviously something bought outsourced to make the trailer just never seen a hub you could not knock out the races. Just my little mind wondering never seen that in all my years of trailer bearing woes.

Not sure if they are meant to be throwaways….but when I had a shorelander I just kept a complete spare hub kit. The cost was low ($35) and it’s much easier to swap out the whole hub than deal with bearings and races. If you need to change it on the side of the road you’ll be very happy to just swap the whole hub.

Matt exactly what I do as well. In the fall if the bearings are bad I just buy new hubs now so much quicker just thought I would save this one for a backup not no more.

Weld a bead on face of junk race in 2 spots hit weld with chisel. Race will fall right out

jon amundson wrote:

Weld a bead on face of junk race in 2 spots hit weld with chisel. Race will fall right out

I can’t believe how well that works on all kinds of races. I saw that on YouTube and the way they did it was to run a bead all the way around the race. I tried it, got half way around, went to reposition the part I was working on in the vise to do the rest and the race fell out.

Wish I had a welder

The last time I had my bearings done the guy used a press to get the races out and put back in.

I knock the races out with a punch and have a race driver to install them.

I’m understanding how to get them out. There is not enough surface to get behind the race it is almost flush hence throw away basically. For kicks brought it to a boat dealer yep throwaway.

mrpike1973 wrote:

I’m understanding how to get them out. There is not enough surface to get behind the race it is almost flush hence throw away basically. For kicks brought it to a boat dealer yep throwaway.[/quote

Throwaway hubs. That is just wrong.

Your right one time use what a waste.

mrpike1973 wrote:

I’m understanding how to get them out. There is not enough surface to get behind the race it is almost flush hence throw away basically. For kicks brought it to a boat dealer yep throwaway.

Grind a little relief spot 90 degrees apart behind the race.Had to do that on a hub in the past.Enough to tap it out with a sharp end chisel.

mrpike1973 wrote:

I’m understanding how to get them out. There is not enough surface to get behind the race it is almost flush hence throw away basically. For kicks brought it to a boat dealer yep throwaway.

If a person wanted to invest a little effort, one could use a small air grinder to remove material in two or more areas. This would be done AFTER the races are removed the 1st time, in an effort to allow punch access in the future.
Some hubs I have worked on, had similar recesses already cast into the hub body.

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