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tuga · 05-01-2010, 01:41 PM

Forest,

My 93 had the grease packed hubs on the steer axle. I found out the hard way that they should be re-packed; one froze up while I was coming thru Lafayette, LA. Luckily, I was able to drive the coach to a TA truck stop on I-10 and had both sides of the front axle changed over to the oil bath type. The cost was about $600 for the two, $300 each.

Give Newell a call and ask at what intervals you should re-pack your front bearings. My guess would be every 50,000 miles or 3 years.

I check my oil bearings once a year. IMO oil bearings are the way to go.

05-01-2010, 01:41 PM	#2
tuga Senior Member Join Date: May 2006 Location: Houma, LA Posts: 886	Forest, My 93 had the grease packed hubs on the steer axle. I found out the hard way that they should be re-packed; one froze up while I was coming thru Lafayette, LA. Luckily, I was able to drive the coach to a TA truck stop on I-10 and had both sides of the front axle changed over to the oil bath type. The cost was about $600 for the two, $300 each. Give Newell a call and ask at what intervals you should re-pack your front bearings. My guess would be every 50,000 miles or 3 years. I check my oil bearings once a year. IMO oil bearings are the way to go. __________________ Tuga & Karen Gaidry 1999 Newell 45 w/2 slides Coach #512 2005 Pilot