Something else you will notice if you grease threw the zerk fitting! Before you grease it with the wheel off the ground, with your hand at the 3 and 9 o-clock position try shaking the wheel and take note of the amount of slack in the bearing. Then grease it and again do the same check. Unless you have something wrong with…
The EZ system works. Hand packing the bearings works. It's a good idea to at least annually see what the brakes are doing. That requires disassembling the hub. The EZ system doesn't get you out of hub rebuilds. The EZ system works fine with three considerations. First, the grease that comes with the grease gun is not wheel…
@Photomom, it depends on how much grease was in there to start with. The video says that they come from the factory with not much grease. The bearings fill from back to front, so, once you no longer see old grease, then the bearing is full of new grease. The most difficult part of this job was the tip of our cheap grease…
A few good pumps from the grease gun should be enough to start pushing old grease...once that starts a few more pumps should suffice. It may take several pumps on the gun to get the air out of the grease tube, especially a new one...do that before you attach the grease gun to the zerk fitting. Pump the grease from the gun…
Wheel bearing maintenance requires replacing the grease annually. Grease mixes with water diluting it and thus reducing its viscosity. Bearings, races and cages (the thin shell that keeps the bearings separated) wear as a normal part of use and that material stays in the grease, accelerating wear. Bearings must be cleaned…
@Carolyn..do you mean heavier bearing grease or are you actually asking about using alternative bearings? If you are asking about wheel bearing grease, any good lithium / moly based wheel bearing grease will do just fine....LMX Red is what E trailer suggests for an EZ lube Dexter axles. The trick with grease is to use the…
Awesome informatiion Mike, exactly what I was hoping to hear. I've had 18 years experience at towing boats around the country and am very familiar with bearing buddies. Boat trailers are typically backed in at launch ramps after towing so the "hot" bearing sucks water into it when submerged in the cold water. I would…