jim grigsby
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My 2002 Montana has the Easy Lube Wheels.
How often do you add grease and how much?
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Kodiak5er
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jim grigsby wrote:My 2002 Montana has the Easy Lube Wheels.
How often do you add grease and how much?
Jim
I did away with our easy lube set up and now pack the bearings by hand. Reason being you should inspect the bearings at each re-packing and you need to take them apart to do that.
If you do use a grease gun for lubrication make sure you jack up each wheel and turn the wheel while injecting the grease.
Also use a hand grease gun when greasing the bearings and only give each bearing about 3 slow and easy pumps on the handle.
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skipnchar
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Good advice from Kodiak5er. I would add as a direct answer, that there should be no reason to lube the bearings more than once a year maximum (if you tow a lot) or every other year if you don't. MOST folks who have Easy Lube or other grease gun bearing feeds VASTLY over lubricate them and with some brands this just dumps grease inside the brake drum where it is NOT your friend.
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Cat320
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Once a year, two pumps each wheel.
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dbbls
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I would say never. Just disassemble the wheel assembly every other year and repack and inspect.
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lynndiwagon
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The "two pump" technique will only work after the entire inside area of the hub is full. If you've never done this before you must pump grease until it starts coming out around the zerk. I would think this would take quite a lot of grease initially. I have the easy lube hubs but still take them off once a year for hand packing. Unlike some others, I do think you could use the easy lube hubs successfully if careful.
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You got good advice from the above. I have a 2007 Montana 3400RL with the EZ-Lubes and do not use them. To easy to over fill blowing the rear seal and getting grease on the breaks. No breaks, no stopping.
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hammerdown
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I have Easy Lube hubs on my JAYCO trailer and pulled the wheels after the first year and found two of them with blown seals from the factory. I replaced the linings and hand packed all four hubs. Many have since told me to forget the Easy Lube system and I agree.
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Puddles
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Count me on the never use side.. filling the inside of the hub with grease will only help it retain heat, blow the rear seal & grease the brake shoes really good... sooner or later using a grease gun to lube wheel bearings will cause trouble... there's enough out there without asking for more. 
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If you use the easy lube system like the book says they work, but will blow seals out if not. One of mine was blown from the factory, I cleaned al up with brake clean, put same seal back in and trip to Alaska with no problems. This was on my Open Road. Havent checked the ones on the Seville yet but I will pull them all for before I do the maiden voyage. I put grease in untill I see the first movement of grease coming thro the outer bearing then stop. I guess it leaves enough room for expanson when heat builds. I still think the oil bath like the big rigs run will be better and I am looking into this also. Boat trailers are use them and they back them into the water when they are hot so why won't they work on a 5er or TT.
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