Ranger trailer cool hubs

[fishincreek]

Check out the Ranger forum at bassboatcentral. I also saw something about it in the trailer & towing forum.

[RIBLUEFISH]

If there is nothing wrong with your hubs and they are not leaking do not mess with them. I have a 2003 Ranger and change the oil in them every couple of years and have had no issues. From what I have read they might have not been the best designed hubs and if they go most people are replacing with the newer technology. The new ones have a grease that turns to oil when hot and then cools back to grease.

[crawfish]

I checked out bassboatcentral and watched a video under the trailer forum and it showed everything i asked about. The only thing it didnot answer was what kind of grease to use. Thanks for all the help

[artcarney_agr]

I checked out bassboatcentral and watched a video under the trailer forum and it showed everything i asked about. The only thing it didnot answer was what kind of grease to use. Thanks for all the help

A marine grade grease works fine. Walmart has a Pennzoil Marine grease I've used for years.

I too switched my cool hubs to grease. The cool hubs were not a good application for boat trailers, and a pain in the rear!

[Tashe2]

A marine grade grease works fine. Walmart has a Pennzoil Marine grease I've used for years.

I too switched my cool hubs to grease. The cool hubs were not a good application for boat trailers, and a pain in the rear!

How in the world are they a pain in the rear? Or a bad design? You literally take the aluminum plate off with an Allen wrench. Remove the wheel. Look for the Allen head screw on the hub, remove it and spin the hub over to drain. You then replace with 50wt oil, put the Allen head screw back in, install the wheel, aluminum plate and you're done. Have been running cool hubs for a long time and never had an issue. Wouldn't own a boat without them!

[roadrunner]

How in the world are they a pain in the rear? Or a bad design? You literally take the aluminum plate off with an Allen wrench. Remove the wheel. Look for the Allen head screw on the hub, remove it and spin the hub over to drain. You then replace with 50wt oil, put the Allen head screw back in, install the wheel, aluminum plate and you're done. Have been running cool hubs for a long time and never had an issue. Wouldn't own a boat without them!

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