HELP! Dexter Torflex EZ-Lube
HELP! I have dexter torflex axles with the ez-lube on the end. Have the trailer about 2 years now and 10,000 miles I never greased the wheel bearings. So I decided to grease them and first I used a p...
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Itakethe5th2011 wrote:
You have to fill the whole hub up with grease before it starts to come out of front bearing. It will take 2 or 3 tubes to fill. The first year I did just as direction said. This last spring, before my trip, I pulled drum off to check brakes. Found 3 out of 4 seals had leaked grease on to brake shoes. I will never use hand grease gun again. Hand packing bearings on RV trailer is the only way to do it right.
Don't know what hubs you are useing but on my dexter axels it takes exactly one tube of grease to fill 4 hubs the first time. This does leave a small amount of space as subsequent greasing it will take a couple of pumps before the grease comes out the front. There is not a lot of room inside a hub once the spindle goes in.
One Key is to make sure you use double lip seals as per dexters reccemendations. If you use single lip you will be much more prone to pushing grease past the seals into the drum. In over 10 years of using dexter axels on my boat and rv trailers I have never had grease go into the drums when I used double seals.
