Boom bearings?

[cleaning up mud]

Anyone with a 1.0 or 2.0, ever replace the boom bearings inside the gantry? Have you ever tried to put a shield on them to keep the top one in gantry from going out so quick? We have replaced them and just wondering if a shield would make them last longer.

 

[Reds]

I assume you mean the pillow blocks with a plastic insert that are on the shaft connected right to the boom tilt motor. I have 2 WW2.0's with over 100k washes on each and have never had a problem. I do squirt them with lubricant a couple times a week, along with the vertical boom rods and all my rod ends. Could one side of the boom be lower than the other (belts not adjusted the same?) and causing some additional wear?

 

[cleaning up mud]

The bearings in the gantry that hold the wall boom, this is the second time the top one has gone bad, and other 1.0 or 2.0s Ive seen around the state the boom is sagging and looks like the bearing is bad.

 

[Tom Thumb]

At one time Coleman had a fix for this ( bracket and rubber stopper both ends of boom) don't know if still available replaced mine about 2 years ago.

 

[Greg Pack]

At one time Coleman had a fix for this ( bracket and rubber stopper both ends of boom) don't know if still available replaced mine about 2 years ago.

Tom I just want to verify this- are you speaking of the water wizard wall boom- on the gantry side?

 

[Tom Thumb]

No, what I was talking about was the sagging that happens on the boom, Coleman offered a retrofit too install bumpers on both ends of the boom to keep level when it returns home.
Sorry if my answer was misleading.