Day 339 July 9 2015
Bow River Campground Alberta
We drove from Jasper to 30
km past Canmore Alberta and encountered a couple of hills that forced me to
shift into 1rst gear to make it up them.
We stopped at the bottom of one of the larger hills to look at a
waterfall coming down the mountain. As I
was walking past the camper I noticed that we had lost a dust cap on the rear
right wheel. The wheel did not feel very
hot so we kept going. We stopped at a campground between
Saskatchewan Crossing and Lake Louise for a lunch of tacos. While we were cooking the kids tried panning
for gold and playing in the creek. The
next stop was at the Lake Louise Visitor Center where Isabel collected her
Banff tag for the Junior Explore program.
When we arrived at the Bow River Campground I jacked up the wheel and
confirmed that we had a bad wheel bearing.
We returned the 30 km to Canmore and bought 4 different size bearing
kits hoping one would fit. One kit had
the proper outer bearing but not the inner bearing. I changed the outer bearing and repacked the
hub, the inner bearing rolled smooth so I don’t think there is any damage on
it. We will keep an eye on it and should
be able to make it home before I have to do anymore work on the wheel.
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