Re: grease fitting on front hubs

Posted by Bill Smith on September 12, 2003 at 11:52:45 from (63.147.130.16):

In Reply to: grease fitting on front hubs posted by SCOTT IN MO on September 11, 2003 at 17:27:36:

I agree with all that has been said. Especially the statement's about using wheel bearing grease and not multi-purpose, and the one about doing a good job packing the wheel bearing. When packing a wheel bearing, make sure the bearing gets full of grease in-between all the rollers. You can do this simply by putting grease on the palm of your hand, and with bearing in the other hand smash the grease right into the bearing. Its messy, but you can get it full of grease this way if you don't have one of those fancy bearing greasing deals. Also when packing bearings, I always clean the inside of the hub real good and fill the inside cavity of the hub full of wheel bearing grease. If you don't, the grease will work its way out of the bearing and into this area where it won't do the bearing any good. If this area is full of grease, the grease in the bearing can't work its way out into this area because its allready full. You will probably use up the entire can of grease doing this, but hay grease is cheap and no reason not to do it. Greasing by way of zerk in dust cap isn't going to be near as good as doing a bearing packing job. Even if using the zerk, I would still plan on doing a packing job ever so many operating hours. Maybe more hours than if not using the zerk.

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