EZ lube hubs

hotpepperkid wrote:

jake2250 wrote:

justme wrote:
The easy-lube axels were intended for boat trailers that have the bearings submerged in water when launching a boat. The RV industry use them as a marketing ploy to make people think there is an easy way to lube bearings. The sad reality is that RV owners should forget the easy lube **** and pack the bearing the old fashion way at recommended intervals. Also if one has the spring like nut retainers they should be discarded and replaced with the tang type nut retainers. The springy ones do not hold the nut well and could cause the bearing to loosen and thus cause pre-mature failure.

So if I understand what you are trying to make us believe is,, My EZ Lube axles,,, On my Travel Trailer,,, were designed for boats?

So,, if I submerge my axle launching my boat,, and I use the EZ Lube to flush out OLD Contaminated grease because of Submersion,,
That won't work for my travel trailer????
Why? Because I don't launch my trailer??
If it pushes new grease in and replaces old how is that bad??
Maybe I have a weird view of how the system works,, but for the last four years it has worked for me just as the system was designed!
Given the amount of traveling I do with my travel trailer, I am of the thought that I should only have to remove my bearings when i replace my brakes! If I checked my bearings and brakes at time of purchase, then hand pack and adjust my bearings,, why wouldn't i just be able to add new grease, remove old as its pushed out, and let that work for five years (given my overall travel distance) before checking bearings and brakes?? If it works fine why keep messing with it??

What is really telling you is that they should be repack them just like they do your auto at the car repair place. With the ezlube ones there is no way of telling how much grease is in there so there is no way of telling how much to pump in. When you brake the rear seal then you have grease in places it doesn't belong. My RV repair place repacks them by hand(bearing packing machine) for that same reason

I'm a low-mile tower and I've hand-greased my EZ Lube axles several times over the years. Jack up the wheel, spin it while pumping, listen for the popping noise of air being forced out the rear seal, stop pumping. When I did have my bearings done after 10 years, there was =zero= grease outside the seals and the bearings and seals looked to be in excellent condition; none of the seals were backed out of position, either. I replaced them all anyway. YMMV...

Lyle