Be careful when you lube the "ez lube" hub as it is "ez" to blow out the rear seal which would allow grease to get onto your brakes. Hand packing is the best way. But you should check your brakes when you grease the bearings. BTW, if you drive through water that gets over the bearings then you should check them at your earliest possible time. Really the ez lube bearing system was designed for boat hubs to make it easy to grease the bearings as you drive a boat trailer in the water when launching. Most boat trailers do not have brakes either. Just some food for thought. Also they do make sealed bearing that are called never lube. I have the never lube on mine and you don't have to worry about lubing them.