How much grease in the Ez lube?
Typical greasing of the EZLube requires how much grease? Half tube? Quarter tube? Pushed a quarter tube in and nothing coming out. Almost half a tube in another. Can't be that much grease needed? ...
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westend wrote:
Lets not get too far away from typical trailer bearings, here. Some of the members here are brilliant technicians or have years of mobile repair and other experience. Some don't like grease on their hands.
I'm sort of in the Lynnmor camp, the EZ Lube feature is not so much a system as it is a hole drilled and a zerk fitting. If it works well for someone, cool. If I had them, I'd be pulling the hubs.
About service intervals: For years, before 1970, trucks and cars all had a similar bearing set to those in RV trailers. Typical service intervals (using the fiber grease) would have been around 10,000 miles. Many of those bearings saw a harder life than an RV trailer.
Opposing tapered roller bearing/races were still pretty common til at least the mid 80s... The grease was a lot better than what was used pre 70 though...Typical service grew to repacking when the brakes were done with the better grease... at least 30K.
So yeah, their is no logical reason why TT bearings need to be done annually or at 12K.
