- Location
- Ocala, FL USA
I have a 102" piece of junk to add to the carnage trophy 
So we left Ocala yesterday at about 945 AM.
By 9 PM last night we had eased our way smoothly to somewhere off I40/75 outside Knoxville, TN.
Ate at SHoney's...saw a decent looking 2 dr XJ lifted on 33's.
Left Shoney's and when we were a about 45 miles out from the campground on 25E...stopped one last time just to walk off the cobwebs. (seems silly being so close but in fact it wasn't!!)
I got out to do the usual walkaround my trailer and something didn't seem right.
My trailer has 2 axles...meaning 4 wheels and tires. But for some reason I could not count that high. NO matter how hard I tried...I even had a local smile at me and I could count higher on his teeth than the # 3 I kept getting when I looked at my trailer tires.
Somewhere in the previous 120 miles I lost a complete hub/wheel/tire assembly on my trailer. No noise, no odd handling, not one single warning that something was wrong.
So the tire left on that side was quite warm...we waited 20 minutes or so to let it cool down and eased the final 45 miles or so up 25E to 119 to the campground. Needless to say each time I nudged the rumble strips in the middle of the road everyone in both trucks made their seat look like a dually had run it over.
Apparently the outer bearing on that hub decided to take a break and looks to have siezed up, detroyed its part of the spindle and then took out the cotter pin, spun off the spindle nut and the hub, wheel, and tire escaped into the bush.
Excluding an actual vehicle I have possibly the largest addition yet to the carnage award...and no one has even wheeled yet!!!!
So we left Ocala yesterday at about 945 AM.
By 9 PM last night we had eased our way smoothly to somewhere off I40/75 outside Knoxville, TN.
Ate at SHoney's...saw a decent looking 2 dr XJ lifted on 33's.
Left Shoney's and when we were a about 45 miles out from the campground on 25E...stopped one last time just to walk off the cobwebs. (seems silly being so close but in fact it wasn't!!)
I got out to do the usual walkaround my trailer and something didn't seem right.
My trailer has 2 axles...meaning 4 wheels and tires. But for some reason I could not count that high. NO matter how hard I tried...I even had a local smile at me and I could count higher on his teeth than the # 3 I kept getting when I looked at my trailer tires.
Somewhere in the previous 120 miles I lost a complete hub/wheel/tire assembly on my trailer. No noise, no odd handling, not one single warning that something was wrong.
So the tire left on that side was quite warm...we waited 20 minutes or so to let it cool down and eased the final 45 miles or so up 25E to 119 to the campground. Needless to say each time I nudged the rumble strips in the middle of the road everyone in both trucks made their seat look like a dually had run it over.
Apparently the outer bearing on that hub decided to take a break and looks to have siezed up, detroyed its part of the spindle and then took out the cotter pin, spun off the spindle nut and the hub, wheel, and tire escaped into the bush.
Excluding an actual vehicle I have possibly the largest addition yet to the carnage award...and no one has even wheeled yet!!!!
