Dexter EZ Lubes, use or not?

mosseater wrote:

mike-s wrote:

mosseater wrote:
Here in PA we have yearly inspections and they pull two axles to check brakes, etc. Nothing like introducing the possibility of a problem you weren't going to have.

Seals should be replaced every time the hub is removed, so that's a perfect reason to repack afterwards.

Really, yearly? Do they do that for cars, too?

That whole seals replaced every time thing isn't a hard and fast rule. I have reinstalled used seals many times, in many types of applications. If a seal is viable and still doing it's job, it can usually be taken off and put back on without incident, but you have to be careful. Wipe it clean, inspect it, a touch of lube and carefully reinstall. Burrs need to be taken off the lube hole on the seal surface shoulder, that's key. Done it many times without incident.

Yes, every year in PA, cars, trucks, motorcycles, all of it. Used to be twice a year many years back.

X2. EZ lube phobia or bearing/seal phobia in general......break out the Orville Redenbacher.

As far as the inspections it tends to keep some of the junk off the roads. In Ohio they have no inspection and we have a lot of people who commute into PA from Ohio for work on this end of the state. When you see a car without a bumper, a truck with the entire bedside rusted away, or someone with tires showing cords or hear their brakes grinding metal to metal when they stop beside you, you can bet dollars to donuts they have Ohio tags.

They can still be pulled over and cited but that rarely happens.

I am a bit biased as my brother in law has a state inspection license and I have mine done for the price of the sticker, something in the order of 2 or 3 dollars which is the state's cut, or a couple of beers. Just wish he would get his trailer endorsement. I quit having the TT inspected a few years ago. The RV and trailer places who have the endorsement typically want in the order of $60 to $70 bucks plus the cost of towing it over and back, and the inconvienence of all of it. The citation if caught is $105.00 and they give you 10 days to obtain the inspection with a good chance you just get the 10 days to obtain it and a friendly warning with no fine. I am at least $250 ahead on that game, but doing my own maintenance I know my brakes are good, the lights all work, and the breakaway switch operates, which is the gist of what they inspect on a travel trailer for $70.

There are however the vast majority of people who don't know the difference between a bolt and a screw, or what the sound is theyre hearing when they hit the brake pedal and it sounds like the wheel is grinding 5 lbs of burger, and for those people required inspections are needed IMO.