Wheel bearing grease

[Gordon Maney]

What are you using for wheel bearing grease?

Discuss.....

[The Other Ross]

The plain old Valvolene that comes in a tub.No special reason,just seems to be the most common.

[JStinson]

What are you using for wheel bearing grease?

Discuss.....

Lucas Red and Tacky. No real reason, except that's what I usually have lying around.

[Gordon Maney]

Are you packing by hand, or do you folks have a packer?

[JStinson]

Are you packing by hand, or do you folks have a packer?

By hand. I put a good dollop of grease in my left hand and then take the bearing in my right. Then i repeatedly press the bearing into the grease, in a methodical scraping motion to force the grease into the bearing.

[Gordon Maney]

That is the method I use, also, though I do own several packers.

The favorite one I had was in my automotive program. It mounted on a 5 gallon bucket of grease.

I taught kids how to do it by hand in my general automotive series, but in the advanced class, where production was an issue, we used the packer.

[JStinson]

There's something therapeutic about packing a bearing by hand. The warm glob of grease and the rhythmic motion of breathing life into a dry bearing fresh out of the box.

Maybe I'm looking too deep into it?

[Desoto61]

I tend to use the Valvoline Synthetic grease. Might be a gimmic but synthetics are usually better and the extra price is minimal.

I do have a bearing packer. It's one of the cup style with a resivoir of grease below the bearing.

I've also used the cheap ones with the cones where you use a grease gun, but like the cup style better.

[Gordon Maney]

I tend to use the Valvoline Synthetic grease. Might be a gimmic but synthetics are usually better and the extra price is minimal.

I do have a bearing packer. It's one of the cup style with a resivoir of grease below the bearing.

I've also used the cheap ones with the cones where you use a grease gun, but like the cup style better.

Does it have a lever operated pump?

[Frank Irons]

Are you packing by hand, or do you folks have a packer?

I have a cup style packer but usually end up packing by hand and by the time I am done I have grease all over me. I use regular grease in a tube.

Frank

[Gordon Maney]

I have a cup style packer but usually end up packing by hand and by the time I am done I have grease all over me. I use regular grease in a tube.

Frank

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[Gordon Maney]

There's something therapeutic about packing a bearing by hand. The warm glob of grease and the rhythmic motion of breathing life into a dry bearing fresh out of the box.

Maybe I'm looking too deep into it?

No, I wouldn't say so. Some of my more reflective times have been in the dark of night, standing at the bench grinder, cleaning bolts with the wire wheel.

[Kevin Mienke]

I keep a tub of Napa NLGI#2 grease on my shelf for high temperature areas like wheel bearings. I am careful not to mix the #2 with anything else as it is my understanding that it will break down and lose its high temperature rating if it is mixed with other greases. I pack them by hand.

[Gordon Maney]

An old friend.

I have had this for many years. It is long fiber, drum brake, wheel bearing grease. Marvelously clingy stuff. Somewhat like open face gear grease.

I think this can at least 30 years old. It is displaying some change in the can with respect to color, so I am not sure I would use it on something good now, but it is great assembly lube for needle bearings.

Whenever you something like that, always make sure your assembly grease is soluble in your chosen, final lubricant for the device. In operation the grease will just wash out.

[Frank Irons]

Nothing like the smell of grease or gear lube, only topped by Hoppes #9!

Frank