greasing wheels

A little more info would be a wonderful thing. Like, did you do your own greasing? Were they the EZ Lube hubs? If so, how did you grease them? Technique is important. Debate about the EZ Lube hubs can be acrimonious at times, so the more data the better.

That's what EZ lube's do. Most people think they work fine until someone takes the hub off, then they find what your mechanic did.
Don't use them.
If bearings are packed properly, there is no reason to occasionaly squirt a little more grease in. They may eventually wear it out but they don't use it up.

Mine work just fine, they have been pumped twice now with zero grease showing on the back. Of course they are Disk brakes!

ScottG wrote:
That's what EZ lube's do. Most people think they work fine until someone takes the hub off, then they find what your mechanic did.
Don't use them.
If bearings are packed properly, there is no reason to occasionaly squirt a little more grease in. They may eventually wear it out but they don't use it up.

I took my hubs off after 6 years, and several uses of the EZ Lube grease zerk, and they were fine. They don't all leak grease. But there are issues with some. Personally I think the grease seal surface is damaged during assembly and that's why some have problems.

And if the bearings are packed properly why do people insist that you need to pull and repack bearings every year or two? If it's to renew the grease, that's what the EZ Lube does. But much easier.

lee worsdell wrote:
Just had the guys at the shop pull my drums. Only one brake was working the other 3 covered in grease. Said I put to much in this spring. Metal on metal so don't over do it with grease

How does "metal on metal" have to do with to much grease?

fj12ryder wrote:

ScottG wrote:
That's what EZ lube's do. Most people think they work fine until someone takes the hub off, then they find what your mechanic did.
Don't use them.
If bearings are packed properly, there is no reason to occasionaly squirt a little more grease in. They may eventually wear it out but they don't use it up.

I took my hubs off after 6 years, and several uses of the EZ Lube grease zerk, and they were fine. They don't all leak grease. But there are issues with some. Personally I think the grease seal surface is damaged during assembly and that's why some have problems.

And if the bearings are packed properly why do people insist that you need to pull and repack bearings every year or two? If it's to renew the grease, that's what the EZ Lube does. But much easier.

You don't need to renew the grease every year. That's just CYA stuff put out by the vendor. Talk to an old, highly experienced mechanic and he'll tell you the same.
Also, you would need to pump at least half a tube of grease through the hubs to get fresh stuff out the front. A couple of squirts does nothing at all.
I've taken apart front wheel bearings on decades old cars and the grease and bearings were still fine. No way a trailer will destroy grease in a year - or even 5 years.

ScottG wrote:
You don't need to renew the grease every year. That's just CYA stuff put out by the vendor. Talk to an old, highly experienced mechanic and he'll tell you the same.
Also, you would need to pump at least half a tube of grease through the hubs to get fresh stuff out the front. A couple of squirts does nothing at all.
I've taken apart front wheel bearings on decades old cars and the grease and bearings were still fine. No way a trailer will destroy grease in a year - or even 5 years.

I absolutely agree, but there are quite a few people on here who feel that bearings should be repacked at least every couple years. Makes no sense to me either.

It is too easy to blow grease past the inner seal and onto the brake linings, which is why I don't do that procedure.

That's what he said don't grease for atleast a couple of years. Said grease aint going anywhere lol. Another lesson learned

If they are the EZ-Lube, rolling/turning/spinning the tire is "pretty" much a must. Kind of a pain if you're by yourself. I'm going to take an old washing machine motor, fabricate a base with rollers, driven by a belt/pulley system (to spin tire slowly). Then simply place roller against tire, power-up the motor,spin the tire, and commence "greasing". Before anyone calls "bull" on the system, I have several trailers with the EZ-Lube system! The "spin, grease, repeat" gets a little old!