Trailer with a sticky wheel - ideas please?

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Would appreciate some help...

We picked up an older double Rice a while ago & my Landcruiser (3.4 litre v6 petrol) was struggling to tow it empty. Have now jacked up each side of the trailer & the front wheel on the nearside when spun only does 3 or 4 revolutions before stopping. I was planning on greasing all the wheels, but is there anything else I should be thinking about doing or looking at?

V relieved that it's the trailer & not the car. I've been v puzzled re why it was labouring so much when it can theoretically tow 2.8 tons & it's absolutely fine for 'normal' driving.

Also posted in the towing clinic.

Thank you

T x
 
Kick the wheels :) its a temporary solution but it will free them sometimes if they are dragging! And then drive straight to a trailer mechanic and get it sorted.
 
Go to your mechanic. One of the wheels on our box stuck last weekend, we could reverse (luckily, as it happened on a corner), but couldn't even attempt to go forward. Mechanic had a look, something had fallen off and gotten wedged in somewhere (I don't know the exact details). It was ok to bring home once he took it out (is being replaced this week, he had to get parts), and he said if we had been going faster, with a heavier horse, we wouldn't even have noticed it.
It could be bearings either, that was what was suspected with ours until the mechanic had a proper look.
To try unstick it temporarily, reverse it, then drive forward, that can sometimes help apparently.
 
H'mm, it's not stuck altogether, it just doesn't turn that freely...

Grrrr, this was s'posed to be a cheap alternative to a lorry, & it's gone wrong before I've even been out in it...
 
It might be the bearings needing grease so. Best thing is to get a mechanic to check it out, just to make sure there's nothing major wrong, getting it sorted now will be cheaper than if something major goes wrong because of it.
 
1. Bearings need greasing
2. Brakes rusted and partially-seizing
3. Back plate rusted/rotten and bits of rust breaking off, dragging and binding
4. Brakes badly adjusted and rubbing

Either way, to the mechanic.
 
Suechoccy said:
1. Bearings need greasing
2. Brakes rusted and partially-seizing
3. Back plate rusted/rotten and bits of rust breaking off, dragging and binding
4. Brakes badly adjusted and rubbing

Either way, to the mechanic.
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This. Won't be a massive job, and then if its kept well maintained it will be fine!
 
Kept happening to mine until one day it seized up altogether. Turned out to be a brake plate(?) that had broken off & got wedged which stopped the wheel from moving xx
 
Honestly with a new to you trailer its a good idea to have a service done anyway for piece of mind and then get it done every year !

It sounds like the brakes as it happened to mine not so long a go - rocking it forwards and backwards helps but we had to fork lift ours up and lump hammer them to get it moving last time

I mentioned to the girls on the yard last week I was booking mine in for a service pre season so it doesn't happen again and one of them said why when you can just fork lift it up and give it a whack .... erm because I quite like an easy life and being able to hitch up a just drive off would save me quite a bit of hassle on a show day , it also might be a little safer ??
 
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