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Topic ClosedWheel bearings - Event Date: 25 May 2017

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    Posted: 24 May 2017 at 12:05pm
Does anyone know what size beRing buddy is needed for a 2016 r pod 179?
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: 24 May 2017 at 1:04pm
None. Your hubs have a lube system in place. The top of the "hub cap" pops off, under you will find a rubber cover, remove it, you will find a zert.

Elevate wheel so it can be rotated, while rotating pump until fresh new grease comes out the front.

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Direct Link To This Post Posted: 24 May 2017 at 1:24pm
Everything furpod says but you can put to much grease in and it may end up on your brake pads as I found out. Which while not a big deal it did take a whole can of brake cleaner to get it off.
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: 24 May 2017 at 2:26pm
Thank you.  Not sure what a zert is, but I will take a look.  I was thinking that a bearing buddy like on my boat trailer would be a great addition. 
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: 24 May 2017 at 3:06pm
zert = grease fitting
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Thank you. Something new every day. 
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: 24 May 2017 at 3:15pm
Does anyone  know how to access the slideout motor in the 179 pod?
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: 24 May 2017 at 3:18pm
It has two. Hopefully you will NEVER need to mess with them. Google "shwintek slide motor"
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: 24 May 2017 at 3:30pm
This video will give you an idea how it works for manual retraction:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YzqbvwCJpNU
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: 24 May 2017 at 3:57pm
Originally posted by furpod

None. Your hubs have a lube system in place. The top of the "hub cap" pops off, under you will find a rubber cover, remove it, you will find a zert.

Elevate wheel so it can be rotated, while rotating pump until fresh new grease comes out the front.

Done.

It is actually a Zerk fitting. The patent for the Zerk fitting was granted to Oscar U. Zerk in January 1929, and the assignee was the Alemite Manufacturing Corporation[1] (thus the eponymous names for the fittings). Alemite was already marketing ball check valves to accept grease supplied under pressure from a grease gun, such as for car and truck chassis lubrication points, both for OEM installations and for aftermarket upgrade kits which would screw in as replacements for stock grease cups. But Zerk's fitting was an improved style, less vulnerable to dirt and more forgiving of angled approach. Today, many companies make these grease fittings.
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