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These axles take a ton of grease. I swear I have 3 grease guns now with the same red grease in them, because everytime I grease something the gun runs out. Where does the grease go? 
Greasing dexter axles
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Using the ez lube feature? In the center between the bearings, that has to get filled up before it will start squishing out.
Make sure you go slow and spin the wheel too. If you don't it will be going into the brake drum in no time. Probably best to do it when the grease and bearing is warm as well.
Make sure you go slow and spin the wheel too. If you don't it will be going into the brake drum in no time. Probably best to do it when the grease and bearing is warm as well.
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I greased them initially when the trailer was new until the grease came back out of the little hole they put in it. This is my boat trailer that doesn't get used much and I greased them again like 2 years later and it still takes like 15 pumps per wheel for grease to start coming out.
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That’s what I do the first time unless they identify what the factory put in. One of my boats stated it was Red n Tacky - so stayed with that.
Hubs were always cool - good nuff …
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I always look for Dexter when possible - first couple times it was Tie Down Engineering - think they bought them …
Dexter developed those axles for boat trailers initially. They have since been co-opted by the RV market and incorrectly touted as an alternative to a proper repack. A correctly done repack will not require additional grease between servicing. A legit repack is the removal and cleaning of the bearings and then an inspection as well as inspecting the other brake components and resetting the tension on the bearings.
It takes me less than a tube of grease to do a 4 wheel repack on my 6k axles.
https://www.dextergroup.com/user_area/content_media/raw/LDServiceOnline.pdf
It takes me less than a tube of grease to do a 4 wheel repack on my 6k axles.
https://www.dextergroup.com/user_area/content_media/raw/LDServiceOnline.pdf
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Somehow the water seems to stay out of them. I got one wheel with milky grease that looks like the zerk has a bad spring and ball inside. Luckily you can purge out the old white milky grease. They're good axles though. Have the same ones on my landscape trailer that's on the road everyday, that one I hardly ever grease for whatever reason. I hit them about once a year
Sure, but not all of us have time for that.
I will probably set some time aside around 20,000 miles, but until then I will be using the zerks. The extra grease is a minor annoyance.
Done properly, there's nothing wrong with the procedure other than it is a waste of grease.