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bobsallyh
Oct 13, 2015Explorer II
With the EZ-Lube deal, I have them but don't use them. It came new with EZ-Lube and what I found was Dexter of course filled the bearings and hub with grease thru the zerk. I had "oil" slowly working it's way onto the backing plate, shoes, magnets, and also out around the dust cap. When I pulled the hub apart the hole hub cavity was filled with grease. What I think happens is while the trailer is parked the grease has a slight separation, becoming a little bit of oil and a whole lot of grease. You can see this happen in a can of wheel bearing grease that has set on the shelf for a little while, and tube grease in a grease gun. So when the hub heats up, that oil is getting pushed past the seal and dust cover before it gets mixed up. There was enough grease in those hubs I could have packed bearings after bearings. I used rags and more rags to get the grease all out of the hubs. Have repacked the bearings by hand with no grease in the hub don't use the zerks. Things have stayed dry for several years now. If I would have packed the bearings and hub on a race car that I used to work on like Dexter did, the crew chief would have sent me down the road kicking pebbles! And for some of our Canadian friends, we call them zerks, above the border many people call them grease nipples.
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