Bearing Failures & Hub Savers

Not sure I'm 100% but I think it was about 2 tubes for all 4 hubs. I did use a manual grease gun and kept the wheel turning the entire time. There wasn't much old grease. Pretty much new grease came out almost immediately after the old grease. I made sure to overdo it to get all of the old grease out. I would have removed and done it right, but I was in a time crunch.

Standing by for the posts calling me an idiot.
 
Not sure I'm 100% but I think it was about 2 tubes for all 4 hubs. I did use a manual grease gun and kept the wheel turning the entire time. There wasn't much old grease. Pretty much new grease came out almost immediately after the old grease. I made sure to overdo it to get all of the old grease out. I would have removed and done it right, but I was in a time crunch.

Standing by for the posts calling me an idiot.
New grease should come out immediately after the old grease. That is the grease from the cavity, after that there should have been more old grease which would have been the grease from the other bearing, and then finally more new grease.
 
I pumped until the outer cap completely full of grease and dug out the excess from the cap with my finger. Based on what I saw, I don't think there was any old grease in the cavity, just in the bearings themselves.
 
@lineman1234
My question was an honest one. Not trying to insult or argue or anything. I was just wondering how much grease it took. I know the EZ lubes 'can' be used if you are slow and careful but the cavity is pretty big and wondered how many pumps it took.
Sorry, the other person likes to pic things people say or do apart, and i see no need to get into it so i canceled.

Hear is ( my thinking )
On fresh packed barrings, new seals, double lipped. After putting everything back together, i fill the void with same grease, by pumping in, till it just starts to come out the front barring. Now the hole thing is full of grease yet plenty of room before it gets to the removable cap. I dont count the pumps, but it takes a bit. It would seem to reason, a smaller axel/spindle would take less grease.

Its overkill, i know i dont need to grease in-between repacking's. But, putting grease in when im in the mood, between, the fresh grease gets injected between the double seal and the barring, and lifting, rotating tire slow, as well as pumping slow, the grease goes through the rollers to push the fresh grease, in the middle, through the front barring. By the time any ( per say ) old grease gets to the front barring, its time for me to repack anyway. ( in my mind ) better some fresh grease than none.
Wipe out extra and put cap on.

With the said cavity, full, and if, i start putting grease in, and it isnt coming out the front right away, time to check the seal.

Equipment greaseable barrings, some quite high speed, and greaseable U joints, Dont get taken apart, cleaned and repacked, just fresh grease added to the old grease, in one spot, nothing rotated.
 
I’ve read multiple threads where folks insist one should never use the zerks and insist the only right way to do it is to pull the hubs and hand pack the bearings and the threads got pretty heated.
Yessss, it gets nasty.

The ones that say it blew out the seal, never mention that it was or wasnt a double lipped seal. Or that the seal had never been changed, ever.
 
Is it just me, or does anyone else get the urge to buy a pop-up truck camper and have no axel, barrings, seals, or ez lube stuff to talk about??? When ez lube discussions start??

That and taking this apart to check, clean and repack with fresh seals when i got this home after buying it. Not quite what i was expecting.

Yep, someone had a barring failure, wasnt me...........
 

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