Dexter EZ Lube ISSUE RESLOVED bad gun

If you pack the bearings, pack the hollow hub, fill the hollow cavity on the rim and start pumping till you see the grease come out, all yourself. Then install the tire and rim I like the system. A few pumps and the grease starts moving. If it is new, or somebody else does it, who knows?

Likes to tow wrote:
To all of you still using the EZ Lube feature on your axle be aware of the issues with this system!! If you have been pumping away with your grease gun and nothing comes out there is the possibility that the rear seal has blown out and your are lubing your brake shoes and magnet assemblies. I highly recommend you pull your brake drums and inspect for grease on the brakes~!!! There are significant amounts of opinions on using the easy lube system but most experienced Rv'ers will only hand pack the bearings. Easy Lube is wonderful for boat trailers that get submerged in water but useless on any trailer with brake actuators operating on the highway. Do a search on this and other forums about this issue and you will find an overwhelming number of people have had major issues with grease on their brakes. Look at the Grand Design owners forum and see the issue with Lippert and the massive replacement of complete brake assemblies due to grease getting past the seal.

Uh, you may have read some posts on the GD forum but clearly not all of them because you're missing THE most important fact.

The problems with leaking axle seals from the OEM have ZERO...I state again...ZERO relation to the EZlube system.

The EZlube zerks are not touched at the factory!


Do a test the day you opt to repack your bearings manually. Before you pull the hubs, try to force grease into the hub via EZlube zerk as fast and hard as you can. Try to blow that seal. You wont.

It takes significant pressure to blow out an axle seal with a grease gun. And if it leaks any grease, well then it would leak (or is leaking) under normal use and its good you are replacing it!

azdryheat wrote:
Frankly, I see no reason to fill up the hub with grease. Too easy to blow grease past the inner seal and contaminate the hub and brake linings. I too have the EZ lube axles but I don't pump in the grease. I grease the bearings, re-install them, and nothing more.

X2, I see no reason to put a tube of grease on two bearings except in marine use. You need to inspect your bearings, and races, and this can only be done by cleaning , and re packing.

RinconVTR wrote:

Likes to tow wrote:
To all of you still using the EZ Lube feature on your axle be aware of the issues with this system!! If you have been pumping away with your grease gun and nothing comes out there is the possibility that the rear seal has blown out and your are lubing your brake shoes and magnet assemblies. I highly recommend you pull your brake drums and inspect for grease on the brakes~!!! There are significant amounts of opinions on using the easy lube system but most experienced Rv'ers will only hand pack the bearings. Easy Lube is wonderful for boat trailers that get submerged in water but useless on any trailer with brake actuators operating on the highway. Do a search on this and other forums about this issue and you will find an overwhelming number of people have had major issues with grease on their brakes. Look at the Grand Design owners forum and see the issue with Lippert and the massive replacement of complete brake assemblies due to grease getting past the seal.

Uh, you may have read some posts on the GD forum but clearly not all of them because you're missing THE most important fact.

The problems with leaking axle seals from the OEM have ZERO...I state again...ZERO relation to the EZlube system.

The EZlube zerks are not touched at the factory!


Do a test the day you opt to repack your bearings manually. Before you pull the hubs, try to force grease into the hub via EZlube zerk as fast and hard as you can. Try to blow that seal. You wont.

It takes significant pressure to blow out an axle seal with a grease gun. And if it leaks any grease, well then it would leak (or is leaking) under normal use and its good you are replacing it!

I did not mean to place blame on the Grand Design problem with EZ Lube system. It was only to show what can happen when you get grease on your brakes, however that may happen. Grand Design/Lippert problem was caused by bad thin grease with low dropping point, bad seals or the process of assembly.......who knows for sure, they have claimed many theories.

I had the EZ lube system on my 2nd 5th wheel(Crossroads Cruiser) which I had purchased from an individual after he owned it two years. His statement to me was "I greased the bearings several times using a grease gun, never pulled the drums." My inspection, after realizing I had very little braking ability, was the brake clusters (shoes and magnets) were completely saturated with grease!!!

Thanks for the update!

Likes to tow wrote:
To all of you still using the EZ Lube feature on your axle be aware of the issues with this system!! If you have been pumping away with your grease gun and nothing comes out there is the possibility that the rear seal has blown out and your are lubing your brake shoes and magnet assemblies. I highly recommend you pull your brake drums and inspect for grease on the brakes~!!! There are significant amounts of opinions on using the easy lube system but most experienced Rv'ers will only hand pack the bearings. Easy Lube is wonderful for boat trailers that get submerged in water but useless on any trailer with brake actuators operating on the highway. Do a search on this and other forums about this issue and you will find an overwhelming number of people have had major issues with grease on their brakes. Look at the Grand Design owners forum and see the issue with Lippert and the massive replacement of complete brake assemblies due to grease getting past the seal.

I agree with this guy. If you do fill the whole thing with grease and down the road you pull it off and clean out all of the grease---I doubt you will pump grease in again.