Through an unnecessarily long and convoluted tale I ended up 150 miles from home with no dust cap on one hub of my trailer. The bottom half of a soda can was just a bit too big for the hub, but a used pair of foam ear plugs held it in place.
For the whole trip.
At 60+ mph.
Puck that noise, get home and repack the bearing. Nice save ;)
I have a 14 year old HF 4x8 trailer with a 6 year old plastic drink cup on one of mine!
The earwax likely lubed the installation, where it then froze solid from the cold wind and glued it in place. Sounds like this one is a win for earwax.
Hey, if Ford and others can use a discarded can of tomatoes for a vacuum reservoir then you can use earplugs and tin cans.
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ebonyandivory wrote: Hey, if Ford and others can use a discarded can of tomatoes for a vacuum reservoir then you can use earplugs and tin cans.
My '61 Pontiac had one of those Hi-C can vacuum reservoirs on it. 
I once lost the oil fill cap on a car while on a trip, so oil was spraying out of the valve cover all over the place. I found a discarded soda pop can laying on the ground, crushed it down so it fit snugly between the hole in the valve cover and the bottom of the hood, and made it the rest of the way without incident.
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