Does anybody know if there is hub odometer available for small trailers simillar to the kind used on OTR trailers?

I thought it would be great if I had a hub meter to use on my new Gooseneck stock trailer so I could keep track of mileage over it's life span.

I do try to keep a small note book where I record the milage and keep with my manifests and maintenance records.

But a meter physically mounted on one of the hubs would be sweet.

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Try these links :

http://www.stemco.com/stemco/Product...0/Default.aspx

http://www.rvedition.com/

 

Awesome,

Just what the Dr Ordered!

Thanks Jr!

 

You're welcome.

 

I bought a Stemco and put on our 5th wheel. Seems to work well. The counter guy at the truck place helped me pick the right size by the tire size of the trailer, they are set to work on an "average" to allow for tire wear. The mounting bracket didn't work on my wheel - didn't span the hub properly so I had to fabricate my own. Also, the wheel studs on my trailer didn't stick out far enough to double nut them on so I had to replace two of the studs with longer ones to get another nut on over the top of the wheel lug nuts to securely hold it in place. Both minor things, but something to consider if you get one. It works well and is easier than logging towing/non-towing miles from the truck odometer.

 

I bought a case of brand-new Veederoot Hubodometers from an E-Bay vender for ridiculous cheap.

These are for a larger tire diameter than I use; but, I did the math, then compared my math to the trucks odometer on several long trips; it couldn't have worked out easier; to come up with the actual miles traveled, I multiply the hub reading by .75 or 3/4.


Everything I own, trucks, trailers, even my band-mill, has 8-lug wheels and Dana wet-hubs/axle-flanges; everything also has 235-85-16 or 7.50-16 tires; exactly the same diameter.


I made a bunch of axle-flange brackets and have mounted these hub-meters on a number of my trucks/trailers so far.

I put one on the son's SRW 4x4 1st Gen. Dodge, on account of his odometer not functioning.



One BIG word of caution :


Be aware on any SRW vehicle that a hub-meter is going to stick way out there, like a big sore thumb; it would be very easy to mis-judge and "hub" something, thus ripping off the meter and probably destroying it.



When making my own brackets, I learned from experience that the center-point tolerance of these meters is practically ZERO; any little deviation of the meters center from wheel-center will cause erratic behaviour of the meter and enough of that could probably damage the meter.


Once I learned this, I made a jig on my wood-lathe face-plate that has two mounting studs identically located like on the axle-flanges.

I use this jig to locate exact bracket center; then, once the center-hole is drilled and meter mounted on the bracket, I can run the meter with the lathe and make any fine-tuning adjustments necessary, prior to mounting it on the vehicle.

I have it written down somewhere that I can't find, but I remember when I did the math on my lathe-jig that, at the lathe's slowest speed, the hub-meter is travelling at over 100-mph.