This is a picture of the stub mast that goes up into the yaw bearing, the top thrust plate of the bearing has a groove about 1/16 deep in it after only 6 months of flying but it too deep in to get a clear picture of it! You can clearly see the steel filings stuck into the grease making a thick paste that stopped it from turning.
I guess I'll be looking for Teflon sheet now... Robin - Down Under (or are you Up Over)
Downside is that, when the trailer is not hooked up, you have this plate covered with grease in the truck bed. Imagine what happens if you tether a dog back there...
There is a product to solve this problem: A thick (maybe half-inch) Teflon washer that goes where the grease would go. It has fingers in the inner hole that makes it hang onto the trailer pin when they're not connected.
One of those would provide all the heavy teflon sheet you'd need for several top-of-the-pipe-on-pipe teflon bushings.[ Parent ]
