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They were definitely needing grease.
Wouldn’t have carried a heavy load very far.
At least you now know their condition and they have plenty of grease.
Numerous examples in the old threads of guys getting trailers that looked great, but had junk dry bearings, including me.
Glad you checked...
Any standard or high temp bearing grease will work.
Recommend you repack the grease at a minimum.
Then you can use the Bearing Buddies to keep them maintained
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You’ll want to remove the wheels and physically inspect/repack the bearings.
These trailers are notorious for lack of maintenance as already mentioned.
Snap-on makes a special plier that removes the grease cap without damaging it.
I've used mine to remove some...
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