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We have a 4 wheeled yard cart that tips for hauling hay, firewood, or bags of feed across the muddy ground at home. I have already "fixed" the rear bushings so I only needed to "Fix" 2 more wheels. The cheap azz bearings in the wheels have seized, or broken apart inside of 1 year (didn't even think to check them). At work I found some aluminum round stock that I put on the lathe, and drilled out the centers to match the wagon axle diameter. I then cut to length, some conduit to act as a sleeve over the top of the round stock (had to mill off 1 mm on both O.D. of the aluminum round stock to fit the I.D. of the conduit). I will coat a liberal application of red grease to every surfce like I did on the other set already done. This took about an hour, and cost me nothing. The bushings that I already finished work like a charm, and a couple of washer help hold the excess grease on the sliding surfaces.
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