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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FishHaggis wrote:
Went back today with another tube of grease and all four are now done. Two full tubes of grease and a bit did all four hubs. Pulled a wheel and checked the drum. No issues. No gross grease coming out where the grease is supposed to come out either, just nice new grease so I think they had the bare minimum at the factory and that was it. Travelled about 6000 kliks with no grease? I always touch the hubs every time I stop as a habit and they were never hot.
The grease came out as was supposed to. I had bailed just too early as each hub needed just a bit more. Wheels are fine, brakes are fine.
Your hubs had more grease in them than others have reported.
When you pulled the one drum... Did you happen to look at the grease hole on the spindle for the inner bearing? There was a thread about this hole in the past having a sharp edge that could damage the seal when installing the drum. The poster chamfered this edge with a dremel.
I haven't looked at mine yet to see if this is still an issue.
If this edge still exists, the problem is that the seal can be nicked any time the drum is installed. So you can take it off, see that everything is fine, and then nick the seal putting it back on.
When I do my bearings, (not gonna use the easy lube feature) I will be looking at this closely, and chamfering this edge if it needs it.
Or perhaps installing the sleeves.
