How much grease for wheel bearings?
I have run into this problem more then once over the years with boat and camping trailers. Over greasing zerk fitting on wheels and pushing grease through the seals and getting grease into brakes. ...
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Everyone thanks so much for the input.
The nice part about this forum is you can ask and find people with way more knowledge then you have on a subject. This was an eye opener for this old boy. I do have the Dexter EZ lube setup and I guess I didn't have a clue to the required maintenance for them. I did as suggested a search on you tube
and found a video from Dexter and it stated jack it up and rotate the tire slowly while pumping grease slowly until you see the new grease come out the front. That would have been the last thing I would have done fearing blowing grease out the seals. I guess that will be my new spring project each year from now on. Who says you can't teach and old dog new tricks. I am humbled one more time.
Huntindog, I noticed your post right after I posted mine and came back and edited. You bring me back to one of my original thoughts on this subject. I have run many cars well over 200 K miles over the years. When new brakes are required I usually have bearing checked or repacked since I don't do much of the work myself any more. But that is sometimes 50-60K miles between intervals. Is it really necessary to do so much more bearing maintenance on a trailer?
Bob
The nice part about this forum is you can ask and find people with way more knowledge then you have on a subject. This was an eye opener for this old boy. I do have the Dexter EZ lube setup and I guess I didn't have a clue to the required maintenance for them. I did as suggested a search on you tube
and found a video from Dexter and it stated jack it up and rotate the tire slowly while pumping grease slowly until you see the new grease come out the front. That would have been the last thing I would have done fearing blowing grease out the seals. I guess that will be my new spring project each year from now on. Who says you can't teach and old dog new tricks. I am humbled one more time.
Huntindog, I noticed your post right after I posted mine and came back and edited. You bring me back to one of my original thoughts on this subject. I have run many cars well over 200 K miles over the years. When new brakes are required I usually have bearing checked or repacked since I don't do much of the work myself any more. But that is sometimes 50-60K miles between intervals. Is it really necessary to do so much more bearing maintenance on a trailer?
Bob
