Hub grease seal.
Yep blew one, actually believe it was defective from factory. As the complete axle was replaced and it never seemed to take grease. Well. they found it when they took it off. So, now I have not only a...
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trail-explorer wrote:Cummins12V98 wrote:
Stop pumping and wipe off excess when fresh grease appears.
If you start seeing fresh grease appear out the front of the hub, the hub is overfilled with grease, and has likely already blown out the inner seal.
I've dismantled numerous hubs that use the EZ lube system. The majority of the grease pumped in through the zerk fitting goes BEHIND the inner bearing, and blows out the seal.
SIMPLY NOT TRUE!!!! The seal is designed to tighten against spindly with the grease entering. If you use quality synthetic grease with a grease gun the seal will hold just fine! If you are using Chinese POS seals well that's on you!
The system is designed to fill every cavity and push old grease to the front plain and simple.
Follow the arrows, ALL grease enters behind the rear bearings.
