Replaced my sealed beams with LEDs:
More in depth thing here:
I never really been that impressed by my sealed beams, I even bought a pair of "better" ones like 15 years ago and have tolerated them. I came across these conversion lenses on Amazon awhile back and finally got around to ordering them...
www.therangerstation.com
I took it down the road the blow the mud off the tires after a tour of my bean field and noticed I had a wheel bearing noise... so i ripped a wheel off to check it out.
Well that ain't great...
I think I know where this is going...
Grease looks okish on the inside.
Inner bearing is kinda brown looking too. Without looking too hard at it at least the outer bearing looked ok. I pulled the hub to clean it and look at the races and will throw the bearings in the parts washer at work and look everything over good.
Kinda bummed, I wasn't planning on deep water at all on the trail ride and thus had nothing on hand but a spindle socket to do anything about it after the fact. I figured with new seals I would be ok for a quick dip, I guess not. It got me home though and a little running around afterwards so I guess I can't complain too much (and it is my own stupid fault if I wanted to complain)