Essential RV Maintenance You Probably Aren’t Doing The Right Way

Grease Your RV Wheel Bearings

Many of todays new Fifth Wheels and Travel Trailers come with an easy to grease wheel bearing system. Under the center cap of your wheel is a zerc fitting that you can pop a grease gun on and fill your bearings with fresh grease.

Most of us, IF we ever do grease our bearings, do it wrong. If you just pop the center cap off and pump some grease in there, sure it’s better than nothing, but it isn’t the right way to do it.

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The right way to freshen up your wheel bearing grease it to jack up the axle until the tire can rotate. Then pop your grease gun onto the fitting. Next, while pumping the grease gun, continually rotate your tire, pumping until NEW grease starts to come out.

Don’t just stop when SOME grease comes out. Rotating the tire while greasing will avoid and dry spots or air pockets in the the bearings, as well as make sure new grease pushes all of the old grease out. You may need up to an entire tube of grease for each wheel, depending on how well its been done before you purchased your RV.

I love the Lucas Red N Tacky. We just did 9,500 miles on our last loop through the good ole USA, and with each freshen up of the grease, could feel an immediate difference in the rolling resistance of our trailer. You should be replacing your grease every 3,000 or so miles to keep everything rolling smooth.