10 Industry Voices: One Clear Message - Keep Wheel-End Lubricant Clean
SKF, Timken, ConMet, DANA, and other respected industry sources approach the subject of contamination from different angles, but their advice converges on the same sage recommendation: manage lubricant condition or risk bigger problems.
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5 Ways The Xtractor® Hub Cap Reduces Fleet Maintenance Costs
TMC’s Recommended Practices establish the importance of lubricant inspection, contamination control, and proper wheel-end maintenance. The Xtractor® makes several of those tasks more accessible through its removable HexThread® front-access cartridge and integrated multistage filtration.
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Read Your Hub Oil, Not Just the Level
A hub filled to the correct line can still contain contaminated lubricant. Water, wear metals, and road grit can circ...
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Why The Xtractor? Because Containment Isn’t Enough
Fleet managers know that once a hub begins leaking, it’s usually too late. But what leads to those failures in the first place?
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Hub Oil Analyzed: It's Worse Than You Think
A recent study by an independent, third-party laboratory highlights just how far reality can diverge from accepted cl...
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Challenge The Standard: A Case for Evolving Wheel-End RPs Part 1
The Hub Corp’s new approach to hubcap architecture enables capabilities that simply were not available within oil bath wheel-end systems before. This evolution requires revisiting, and evolving, the existing Recommended Practices.
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Challenge The Standard: A Case for Evolving Wheel-End RPs Part 2
The hubcap is no longer just a containment solution, it’s a performance driver, a diagnostic interface, and a service access point, none of which current RP language recognizes, measures, or guides.
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Challenge the Standard: A Case for Evolving Wheel-End RPs Part 3
The Xtractor hubcap asks the industry to look at what is working in the field and decide whether current standards reflect the best available practice, or simply the most recent one. As data matures, we will share it openly and participate in any technical review TMC chooses to conduct.
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News
The Hub Corporation to Exhibit at AAPEX 2026
The Hub Corporation is heading to Las Vegas for AAPEX 2026, November 3–5, bringing three products built for heavy-duty wheel-ends: The Xtractor® Hub Cap, Vytor™ Xtreme Duty Seal, and Xtreme Duty™ Gear Oil.
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On Becoming a Lifetime Trustee to the University of the Aftermarket Foundation
The Hub Corporation has become a Lifetime Trustee of the University of the Aftermarket Foundation (UAF). Our chairman, Adam Price, will represent us on UAF’s board of trustees.
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