Lubing bevel gears in landing gear legs
I believe my landing gear are the standard Lippert type. I have the single motor system. The landing gear motor sounds like it's working way too hard to lift the front of the trailer. I have alread...
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filrupmark wrote:
Our Lippert landing gear has two zerks within 6 inches from the top on both sides.
The new ones appear to have zerks. Mine definitely has no holes whatsoever for lubing the leadscrew. I had to drill a 3/8" hole about 8" down from the top of the tube. I did this on both legs and squirted quite a bit of white lithium grease into the hole using the straw and pointing it up and down in the hole. Then I ran the gear up and down a few times with no load on it (trailer on truck). That process spreads the lube onto the leadscrew. But I don't think lube makes it to the bevel gears when you do this. That's why I want to lube them from the top.
