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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IT_Burnout wrote:Some of us don't think pulling and repacking bearings every year or two years is necessary. I pulled the hubs on my 2010 Fuzion for the first time last year, and everything was hunky dory. I have the EZ Lube setup and filled the hubs after the first year. I've done nothing since until last year.
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
I honestly don't see the real need for the EZ Lube bearings. The grease can't go anywhere so it doesn't need new grease periodically. The miles put on a normal trailer doesn't really qualify as heavy duty. I have nothing against the EZ Lube system, just don't see the need to add grease on a regular basis. As you have noted you don't lube your car's wheel bearings, why would the trailer bearings be that much different. "If it ain't broke, don't fix it."
