GQ,
If you don't clean the bearing first, you can't inspect it. After
having cleaned and packing my bearings just a year and 10,000 miles ago,
I'd have bet money that they were OK. One most certainly was NOT OK, and
I wouldn't have seen it if I hadn't cleaned it.
A bearing packer is OK, but unnecessary, IMO. You'd have to dedicate a
grease gun to wheel bearing grease, and I think everyone should know how
to pack a bearing by the "scoop & goop" method anyway. :-)
<<Jim>>
G Quamen wrote:
>
>
> Howdy all:
>
> I thought I'd mention how happy I was with the use of a bearing packer.
> Before the last big trip I packed both the bearings on my truck and those on
> my trailer using one.
>
> IMO, the packer fills the little nooks and crannies around the bearing
> rollers better then MOST people could do via the old "scoop & goop" method.
>
> For those who haven't seen one of there gadgets, it is a pair of shallow
> plastic cones connected by a threaded tube with an opening for grease
> between the cones. A zirc fitting at the top of the tube connects to a
> grease gun.
>
> When a bearing is placed between the cones, the grease is forced out though
> the rollers from inside the bearing to the outside. Then you unscrew the
> two cones and smear the extra grease around the exterior surface of the
> bearing and you're done. Fits large and small bearings of the type found
> on pickups and A/Ss.
>
> I also use a can of matching grease to fill around the bearing as much as I
> can before screwing down the upper cone. Then the grease from the gun
> drives the other grease through the bearing.
>
> After the type of grease is established, you theoretically can drive out the
> old grease with the new without washing out the bearing. I'm still thinking
> about that one.
>
> Takes a lot of the guesswork out packing as far as I'm concerned.
>
> GQ '67 Safari
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