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Originally Posted by WaltBennett
If you READ the part about Dexter's EZ-Lube hubs, you'll see they do NOT recommend pulling hubs to grease the bearings. They recommend not using air guns is all.
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6,000 miles new, I followed the directions exactly as written, and after another 6,000 miles, I had to replace all the backing plate assemblies and have all the drums turned because grease had gone past the seals. It cost over $400 to do all this for parts and the turning, with my free labor. It only costs less than $40 to pull the drums, clean and repack the bearings and install new seals, and I never have to worry about grease getting on the brakes, and I have checked the brakes while the drums are off. I was just making a recommendation from experience. Plus, the EZ-Lube procedure uses a lot of grease, just to fill the hub cavities, and when you do pull the drums, you have all that grease to dispose of along with the mess.