How much grease in the Ez lube?

[FishHaggis]

Typical greasing of the EZLube requires how much grease? Half tube? Quarter tube? Pushed a quarter tube in and nothing coming out. Almost half a tube in another. Can't be that much grease needed? Pile of videos and diagrams out there but not how much grease would be typical.

[westend]

The biggest issue I see with these hubs is that what is going on inside the hub is unseen. There is no reliable way to see if bearings are getting enough/too much grease or if the grease is leaking into the drum area, except by removing the hub.
If an owner has to remove the hub, repacking, using a bearing packer, is not that difficult. If an owner used that Almagard grease that Mex suggests, repacking bearings would be in a large service interval (probably every five years?).

[fj12ryder]

Huntindog wrote:
The first big problem here is that there are only two kinds of grease seals. Those that leak, and those that will leak.
That's right. There has never been a grease seal made that won't fail at some point.

The next problem here is that WHEN a grease seal in the easy lube system fails..... It is unseen. It is most always discovered after the damage is done.

So for those of you that are giving good reports on using this system... I am happy for you now.
But at some point your seals WILL fail too. It could be next week, next year or the year after. For all you know, they may have failed now.:E

Okay, that's not the most ridiculous thing I've ever read, but it's pretty darned close.

[TomG2]

Will someone please contact EZ-Lube and tell them to stop manufacturing these hubs? It will save them millions of dollars. You guys have me afraid to take advantage of them even on my cargo trailer which has no brakes. Back to horse and buggies.

I used Bearing Buddies on my boat trailers for years with no problems. A small amount of grease will displace any water that seeps into the hub. Nothing at all like the EZ Lube setup.

[Gulfcoast]

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[Huntindog]

The first big problem here is that there are only two kinds of grease seals. Those that leak, and those that will leak.
That's right. There has never been a grease seal made that won't fail at some point.

The next problem here is that WHEN a grease seal in the easy lube system fails..... It is unseen. It is most always discovered after the damage is done.

So for those of you that are giving good reports on using this system... I am happy for you now.
But at some point your seals WILL fail too. It could be next week, next year or the year after. For all you know, they may have failed now.:E

[fj12ryder]

You're basing your opinion of the EZ Lube hubs on a used trailer that does appear to have been severely overgreased. My experience with my hubs is the polar opposite of yours, but then I know how mine have been treated from day one, you only know what the guy has told you about yours. If I had the same experience as you I may feel the same as you.

[Likes_to_tow]

BB_TX wrote:

Likes to tow wrote:
Are you guys kidding me???? Is this post real???? For those who used several tubes to grease your bearings on an EZ Lube system I know where your grease went!!
Pull the brake drums and look at your brake shoes. EZ Lube axles were primarily designed for boat trailers that get submerged in water. The RV industry picked up on this "easy care-free" idea as a marketing tool. You guys are in serious trouble when you need your brakes!!!!!

You know nothing about where my grease went. I comes out the front of the hub just like it is supposed to do, just as shown in Dexter videos. Have used the EZ Lube system 3 times since new (8 yrs)and brakes still work like new, and no grease on them.

Another one who simply does not know how the system works.

Yes I know how the system works but keep in mind when the grease seals wear out or you do not jack up the trailer and spin the wheel as you shoot grease in as per the instructions from EZ lube you will be soaking the brake shoes!! Many folks on this and other forums do not like EZ lube hubs because of the tendency to have trouble.

[Likes_to_tow]

fj12ryder wrote:

Likes to tow wrote:
Are you guys kidding me???? Is this post real???? For those who used several tubes to grease your bearings on an EZ Lube system I know where your grease went!!
Pull the brake drums and look at your brake shoes. EZ Lube axles were primarily designed for boat trailers that get submerged in water. The RV industry picked up on this "easy care-free" idea as a marketing tool. You guys are in serious trouble when you need your brakes!!!!!

Yeah, I just pulled my wheels/hubs and they were fine. Do you actually have the EZ Lube system? Or are you just parroting what you've heard?

When I bought my trailer from a dealer it was one year old. I noticed the brakes did not seem to work. After getting it home I pulled the drums and the brake clusters were totally saturated with grease. I called the previous owner whom I had talked to earlier about his experiences with the trailer. He told me he always put grease in the ez lube zert each time he went on a long trip...probably 5 times in a a year of ownership. I used lacquer thinner and brake cleaner aerosal cans to remove what I could not wash out with a brush and gasoline. I
have EZ lube hubs on my tandem axle boat trailer and they seem to work good but these are disc brakes on the boat and I can see that grease would not accumulate on the pads like it would in a drum brake system.

[fj12ryder]

^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^:R

[Lynnmor]

dmansellpc wrote:
I just greased mine for the first time and had no problems. Lifted tires with Lippert 6 point and spun the tire while pumping 1 tube per hub.

So then the brakes were completely dry when you pulled the drums and checked them? How did the brakes look otherwise?

[dmansellpc]

I just greased mine for the first time and had no problems. Lifted tires with Lippert 6 point and spun the tire while pumping 1 tube per hub.

[FishHaggis]

Wow. A few dedicated opinions out there. Will add more grease and check the brakes and get back to this forum with what I find this weekend.

[fj12ryder]

Oh yeah, I can believe it but that isn't the fault of the type of hub, that's the fault of the type of inspector. If it's like around here, it's "Quick, get it done and get it out the door, we don't make any money on these inspections".

They really don't do much good beyond giving the legislators and rule book writers the warm fuzzies.

[Lynnmor]

fj12ryder wrote:
If the Pennsylvania inspections are anything like the Missouri inspections, they mostly go through the motions. And they pull every brake hub? What do those inspections cost? Missouri inspections are $10-12, but we also don't have trailer inspections.

Also, FWIW, it isn't hard to pull the hubs without getting grease everywhere. Basically the grease is in exactly the same places as it would be with a regular hub, just a bit more of it. And not really that much more. A non-issue IOW.

In PA, they pull one hub on each axle. The rest of the inspection is visual checks of lights, tires, chains, registration etc. I have never had an inspection done that it wasn't worse afterward. Dirty wrong grease added, too small cotter pin, bearing adjustment way off, lugs at less than half torque spec., lugs stripped, damaged hub caps and axles jacked from near center. I could write a book, but the "never had a problem" crowd wouldn't believe a word of it because they never follow up on the work that was done.
Cost is about $30.

Don't think for a minute that these clowns won't get grease on the brakes.

[fj12ryder]

If the Pennsylvania inspections are anything like the Missouri inspections, they mostly go through the motions. And they pull every brake hub? What do those inspections cost? Missouri inspections are $10-12, but we also don't have trailer inspections.

Also, FWIW, it isn't hard to pull the hubs without getting grease everywhere. Basically the grease is in exactly the same places as it would be with a regular hub, just a bit more of it. And not really that much more. A non-issue IOW.