600 series front hub greasing

martyh · Oct 4, 2015

If I don't have and don't want the hub bearing caps with zerks in them, how often do I pull the hubs and regrease the bearings?

old · Oct 4, 2015

As per the 601/801 owners manual you repack them every 600 hours so a 600/800 series should be close if not the same. Plus the NAA manual say 600 hours also so being the 600 is between them should also be 600 on your tracotr

souNdguy · Oct 5, 2015

As what old said.. service them per the manual.

PS.. a needle adapter could be your friend too!

sotxbill · Oct 5, 2015

Remember that grease from back then would dry out and cake up and thus the bearing would not lube correctly. Using a modern grease should help dramatically extend life over the 1950's technology. Modern carriers in the grease are made to last years between repacks. Lots of modern cars NEVER get repacked and do just fine over a 10 to 20 year life. Even modern trailers are lasting with out repacking and they sit a lot which allows the old style grease to dry and harden up. clean, repack with a modern lube and you will do fine for many years.

martyh · Oct 5, 2015

(quoted from post at 10:07:55 10/05/15)
Remember that grease from back then would dry out and cake up and thus the bearing would not lube correctly. Using a modern grease should help dramatically extend life over the 1950's technology. Modern carriers in the grease are made to last years between repacks. Lots of modern cars NEVER get repacked and do just fine over a 10 to 20 year life. Even modern trailers are lasting with out repacking and they sit a lot which allows the old style grease to dry and harden up. clean, repack with a modern lube and you will do fine for many years.

They're cleaned and repacked with modern Red NLGI #2 GC-LB grease.

600 series front hub greasing

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