camper axle lube question ?

maxwell11 wrote:
rig maintenance question:

I know its off topic for this section, but most of you guys are in charge of lube and maintenance of your rigs.

new jayco 27 foot bumper pull trailer last year, pulled it about 1000 miles or less.

this year I was going to pull the rubber grease zerk covers off each hub and shoot a few pumps of axle grease in each hub.
per manual: grease flows from end of axle through and up into the cavity of the hub.

would 4 or 5 shots of grease from a manual grease gun be sufficient?

Thanks,
Fred

I plan to carry my grease gun with me and check the hubs at each stop.
but, I know if over lubed grease could get onto the brakes.

DON'T DO IT!!!!! I added 4-5 pumps with a small grease gun and ended up with grease in the brakes! The only way to correctly grease a wheel bearing is to remove the wheels, hubs, clean the bearing (I use brake clean) and hand pack them! I have never had great luck with the wheel bearing packer tools myself. But other like them, if you don't want to hand pack then you could try one of them.

Please do yourself a favor and do not use the "easy lube" garbage.

Don