BillWilliams
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[FONT="]The trailer that came with the boat we purchased last July has the E-Z Lube (also called Posi-Lube) system. These have the rubber plugs in the dust caps that you remove to get to the zerk fitting that is pressed into the end of the spindle. The grease exits the spindle in the back by the seal and then pushes the grease towards the open dust cap. Of course the theory is it pushes out the bad grease.[/FONT]
[FONT="]Before the end of last year, I noticed every time we used the boat, water was getting into the grease.[/FONT]
[FONT="]Our previous boat of 20 years had old bearing buddies on it and I never had an issue with those so I decided to put them on this trailer since I was wondering if the rubber plug was allowing the water in. I did deal with the zerk fittings so they did not contact the bearing buddy.[/FONT]
[FONT="]I repacked the hubs with the bearing buddies right before a trip to Florida late in September and made it there and back with no issues. That was the last time the boat was used until yesterday.[/FONT]
[FONT="]I put some grease into the bearing buddies so there was pressure against the piston. Since I just repacked them last fall, I did not do that this spring.[/FONT]
[FONT="]When we got home yesterday, the left rear wheel bearing was burned up, bearing buddy gone and lucky the wheel stayed on. This is the first wheel bearing hub I've ever burned up in over 20 years of owning trailered boats.[/FONT]
[FONT="]The spindle is pretty chewed up and the inner bearing race is stuck on the spindle. I'm probably just going to replace that axle because I don't want to worry about a buggered up spindle driving down the road.[/FONT]
[FONT="]The thing is all of the replacements I'm finding use the E-Z lube system as well.[/FONT]
[FONT="]Now after this long winded story, I was wondering if the other good folks around here have the water intrusion issues in their E-Z lube systems? Quite obviously the bearing buddies didn't help.[/FONT]
[FONT="]Thanks[/FONT]
[FONT="]Before the end of last year, I noticed every time we used the boat, water was getting into the grease.[/FONT]
[FONT="]Our previous boat of 20 years had old bearing buddies on it and I never had an issue with those so I decided to put them on this trailer since I was wondering if the rubber plug was allowing the water in. I did deal with the zerk fittings so they did not contact the bearing buddy.[/FONT]
[FONT="]I repacked the hubs with the bearing buddies right before a trip to Florida late in September and made it there and back with no issues. That was the last time the boat was used until yesterday.[/FONT]
[FONT="]I put some grease into the bearing buddies so there was pressure against the piston. Since I just repacked them last fall, I did not do that this spring.[/FONT]
[FONT="]When we got home yesterday, the left rear wheel bearing was burned up, bearing buddy gone and lucky the wheel stayed on. This is the first wheel bearing hub I've ever burned up in over 20 years of owning trailered boats.[/FONT]
[FONT="]The spindle is pretty chewed up and the inner bearing race is stuck on the spindle. I'm probably just going to replace that axle because I don't want to worry about a buggered up spindle driving down the road.[/FONT]
[FONT="]The thing is all of the replacements I'm finding use the E-Z lube system as well.[/FONT]
[FONT="]Now after this long winded story, I was wondering if the other good folks around here have the water intrusion issues in their E-Z lube systems? Quite obviously the bearing buddies didn't help.[/FONT]
[FONT="]Thanks[/FONT]