[Destroyer]

Originally Posted by Blue_Runner

I had such an aweful experience trying to get bearing buddies to stay on I finally just put grease caps on the hubs. I bought brand new bearing buddies 3 different times. Each time, I would get up to about 65 mph on the highway or interstate and see them rocketing down the road toward oncoming traffic. There goes another $40++! Grease caps are just a touch over $2 each so I just regrease the bearings & install new grease caps once every year to 2 years and good to go. If somebody knows a secret to make buddies stay on I'm all ears. I thought about gluing or 5200 the darn things in place.

I had a similar problem once.. kept throwing the bearing buddy, but only on the one side. As it turns out, it was my fault. I had changed the bearings, and when I put the hub back on I didn't tighten the wheel nut tight enough... it felt tight, it just wasn't.. so as I went down the road the wheel would move on the axel and the bearing race would press against the inside edge of bearing buddy with enough force to actually drive it out of the hub... there goes another one down the road..... When I finally figured out what was happening the fix was to tighten the nut.....who knew.. <sigh>
I like the bearing protecters you get in Wally World... they only cost $27 for a pair if I recall correctly, and they do the same job as bearing buddies... plus, they stay in the hub (as long as you tighten the wheel nut properly)..You have to pound them in with a mallet, so I figure they are there for the duration..