Help with zirk fittings

Huntindog wrote:

Gdetrailer wrote:
Huntindog, you are "preaching to the choir", I am not a "fan" of it, and over the yrs have been a adamant opponent to them..

To me, it is a wasteful and useless "feature" and encourages folks to ignore the brakes that are hidden by the drum..

I would rather pull the drum and inspect/check/adjust the brakes on a regular basis. Axle manufacturers state that the brakes should be inspected/adjusted every 12K miles or once a yr which ever comes first, pretty much negating the usefulness of this system.

However, there is an overwhelming insistence that having EZ lube is not only a necessity but a requirement on this forum. Along with the insistence is the "system" is not flawed nor possibly cause issues.

I am taking a much more neutral approach to this "feature" now days and basically stating "use at your own risk" but at a min if you must use the feature, make an attempt to read and follow the instructions from the manufacturer before plugging that grease gun in to the axle.

What I find interesting is that I have posted many times on this forum some longer write ups that go into great detail all of the failings of the EZLUBE system....Yet when I do a search for them, they do not come up. Only one post of mine, probably the first one from 2011 shows up.It was neutral on the subject, as I had not studied the system at that time.

Search feature of this forum (as well with pretty much any forum) is pretty weak. Often times I get better results doing a overall Internet search.. You can narrow the Internet searches by adding in the forum name or address into the search string.

Internet search engines work off a keywords and how many times the words or phrases have been used and the order of use..

Not sure how forum search engines search but I suspect it is a literal matching more of one to one matching so you have to be spot on exact way the words and phrases appeared in the post.