Bearing grease vs. Chassis grease?

[DirtHauler]

You mean there's another way to pack bearings?? And to think all these years I've been gettin' my hands and finger nails all greasy!

[CurlyDave]

Originally Posted by DirtHauler

You mean there's another way to pack bearings?? And to think all these years I've been gettin' my hands and finger nails all greasy!

Actually, there is another way. Somewhere in my collection of "never-used tools" there is a bearing packer. Two plastic disks with variable spacing and a central shaft.

The idea is that you hold the bearing between the disks and then pump grease into the cavity between the disks.

I was never certain how the fiber grease would work in a grease gun, so I left the packer in its packaging.

[RWEST]

Five

Me too!! I think I still have a can of it laying around somewhere.

[elad]

Originally Posted by AKfish

Whoa... CurlyDave --- hand packing wheel bearing's --- I thought I was the only guy, so old that he remembers doin' somethin' like that...!

Fill yer palm up with a big 'ol lump of grease and squish the face of the bearing down into it and then keep walkin' the face of the bearing around and around until most of the grease is gone.

(Those fibers were probably asbestos...)

AKfish

Count me as one of you hand packing bearing people.
I'm old enough; and I remember doing it at the service station
I was working at. Many times. We also had a packer that forced
the grease between the rollers or balls depending on the bearing.
Most packing jobs were on front wheels of cars. elad

[DirtHauler]

Originally Posted by CurlyDave

Actually, there is another way. Somewhere in my collection of "never-used tools" there is a bearing packer. Two plastic disks with variable spacing and a central shaft.

The idea is that you hold the bearing between the disks and then pump grease into the cavity between the disks.

I was never certain how the fiber grease would work in a grease gun, so I left the packer in its packaging.

Oh yeah! I remember buying one those and trying it, seems it wasted more grease than it actually took to pack the bearing!

[brandoro]

I learned how to hand pack wheel bearings when I was 10 or so. My Dad was a journeyman mechanic and taught me lots of things like that before I reached the age where I knew everything. I eventually recovered from that and started learning things again.
I still pack bearings by hand, seems like the best way to be sure it's done well. Never saw any grease with fibers in it though. Maybe I'm not that old after all. 'Course I just managed to become a Grandfather for the first time last week...