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Old 03-18-2013, 01:42 PM   #21
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I'm looking at 4 wheels on 2 axles?? Wish I had known about E-Z-Lube
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Old 03-18-2013, 02:07 PM   #22
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The Dexter website says the Nev-R-Lube feature is available with the 3500 lb Torflex Axle.
Good advice on rotating the wheel. In addition it must be known that a hand grease gun can produce more than 3000 pounds of pressure, so ease and patience is called for.
Guess I missed the 3500 pound axle with Nev-R-Lube. The only ones I saw were 6 Lug.
They're only offered with 6 lug hubs.
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I'm looking at 4 wheels on 2 axles?? Wish I had known about E-Z-Lube
Should we restart the thread on tandem vs. single axle again?

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Old 03-18-2013, 10:39 PM   #24
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Guess I missed the 3500 pound axle with Nev-R-Lube. The only ones I saw were 6 Lug.
They're only offered with 6 lug hubs.
Yes, the large bolt circle diameter is required to clear the Nev-R-Lube bearing assembly, which is right in the middle (axially) of the hub... same place as the mounting face in typical near-zero-offset trailer axle configurations. Modern motor vehicles get around this problem by offsetting the mounting face outboard, beyond the bearings.

Dexter offers bolt pattern choices on their axles; a 3500 lb axle may be available with Nev-R-Lube only in combination with the wide 6-bolt pattern (which does happen to match some light trucks, but not likely in offset).
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A friend had me repack the bearings on his 2010 Escape before it was a year old. Dexter goes very lite on the grease hardly any. I took the hubs apart repacked the bearings with grease and replaced the seals. I told other Escape owners to check their bearings at the time.
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After I re-packed the bearings for the first time the hub seemed to run hot for the first several hours and then cool down. It was a manual re-pack, not with the E-Z Lube feature. I decided I might be packing them too full. Have any of you run into this? Is it possible to pack too much grease into the bearings?
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My 2003 Casita has a 3500 lb axle, 5 studs (on 4.5" center) with EZ Lube. I put about 2 easy squeezes in each spring (spinning the wheel during the greasing per Dexter service manual) and check the play. I don't add so much that it oozes out.

About every other year I adjust the brakes.

No play to speak of. Haven't removed or repacked the bearings. I'm somewhere about 18k miles on the trailer.
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Ray, what I have always been led to believe, and do myself, is to completely pack the bearings themselves full, and add lube to all the surfaces, but to leave the dust cap empty. I have done this many dozens of times with no issue.

Not counting the jacking time which we would likely all do different, it takes about 30 minutes tops to remove the wheel, inspect the brakes, and repack the bearings.
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After I re-packed the bearings for the first time the hub seemed to run hot for the first several hours and then cool down. It was a manual re-pack, not with the E-Z Lube feature. I decided I might be packing them too full. Have any of you run into this? Is it possible to pack too much grease into the bearings?
E-Z Lube completely packs the volume inside the hub assembly under some pressure, which is certainly vastly more than necessary, but at least establishes that it could not be possible to manually over-fill the hub with grease.

On the other hand, it is certainly possible to adjust the bearings too tight, and to improperly seat the bearings which causes them to loosen up with use.
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