Wheel bearings again

[partsman01]

So just a thought, bought our current 2004 Fleetwood wilderness lite 24.5RK fifth wheel, used in 2010 and the dealer did what ever they do before one takes delivery of it, anyway I have never done the bearings.

I have the EZ lube, so I have pumped grease in once or twice, but only till I see the old grease move, not till the new shows up.

Anyway my question is that I have over time bought a few tubes of grease, even work in the transportation industry, so have access to lots of grease, and I was thinking of pumping one wheel full per instructions of dexter, then taking the bearings apart as now they probably should be inspected anyway just to see how or if the system works like it should, anyone ever experiment to see how it looks when taken apart, seems it would be an interesting thing to see, and like people say one should at some point start from scratch and go over everything once in awhile.
we have not used the rig in at least two years and even then we might do only 1500 or so Kilometers a year.
Just curious to see what you all think.

[old_guy]

I am just a nut about doing my bearings every two years whether they need it or not

[corvettekent]

Our 5th wheel came with Dexter NeveRlube wheel bearings. We have put 60,000 miles on it with no problems.

[SidecarFlip]

One thing you always want to do when greasing with the EZ lube caps is, jack up the wheel and grease and rotate at the same time. That gets the grease evenly distributed better.

[Sloop_Smitten]

I have always felt the E Z Lube system was most beneficial to boat trailers and the like. If you are going to roll your wheels into water, filling any cavities with grease prevents water penetration around the wheel bearings. I can see some advantage to using it on road trailers but if it gives you a false since of the quality of your wheel bearing grease it could do more harm than help.

[RinconVTR]

The EZ-lube system is really just for refreshing the hub with some new stuff. A feel good check you have some decent stuff in the hub.

Do not believe anyone who says the EZ-lube system blows seals. That is absolutely false, unless the seal is indeed bad. Only a bad seal will allow grease to pass!

But do remove and manually repack the bearings by pulling the hubs every 12k miles as directed, do not rely on the EZ-lube system.

Ironically, if you do manually repack the bearings every 12k miles or less, you really have no need to use the EZ-lube system.

[GordonThree]

It's really not that interesting, you just end up with a lot of extra grease to clean off from inside the hub.

After two years, I opened my hubs up, cleaned everything and replaced the bearings just for the heck of it - didn't see anything wrong with them but it's like a $5 part so why not.

I only have a single axle trailer, so a double or triple 5R I can see it being a lot more work - ez lube might win out there.