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05-09-2017, 04:58 PM | #21 |
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05-10-2017, 09:50 AM | #23 |
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Re: rear wheel bearing grease
Local NAPA didn't have it in stock, but ordered it for a two day delivery to the store for $6.49
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05-10-2017, 10:54 AM | #24 |
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Maybe five suppliers popped up fpr around $5 a Green Can. Here is one. https://www.finditparts.com/products...FcWFswod0N8HsA |
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04-29-2020, 07:57 AM | #27 |
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Re: rear wheel bearing grease
Talking about rear differential grease, when you lube with a grease gun,the fitting outboard below the brake backing plate, what is the purpose of it? I lubed it with the hub off and grease came out of the axel housing between the axel and the housing. Is it designed to get grease in the hub roller bearing area when I install the hub?
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04-29-2020, 09:47 AM | #28 | |
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Thats why its there. Most folks don't use it and just pack the bearings once in awhile. Once that fitting is cleaned out I don't have a problem using it. A couple squeezes once in awhile won't hurt anything. |
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04-29-2020, 04:00 PM | #29 |
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Re: rear wheel bearing grease
As for that grease fitting behind the backing plate......unless you completely clean out the old solid grease from the passage way from it to the bearing, Don't use it !
As mentioned, once a year I'd give that fitting a shot.....now with the rear disassembled I found where it went. Not to the wheel bearing but since it couldn't get there, it went passed the seal. Must have been a tube of grease the length of both axles ! O' What an un-enjoyable mess to remove. (And now you don't have to !) jb |
04-29-2020, 04:41 PM | #30 |
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If Randy says use it - take it for Gospel!! He knows what he is doing and is a GREAT guy!
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04-29-2020, 04:53 PM | #31 |
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It took Ford years to get rid of those grease fittings but they eventually deleted them for Banjo axles. They have always been ineffective for the rear wheel bearings and end up greasing the brake shoes more than anything.
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04-29-2020, 06:02 PM | #33 |
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The shape of the two are different is what I understood? It stays on the flat roller better than a tapered one?
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04-29-2020, 11:19 PM | #34 | |
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Anyway, I have used it for a long time on front and back with no ill affects.
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04-30-2020, 12:56 AM | #35 |
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Online orders ship free to your local store if they don't stock it normally.
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04-30-2020, 01:06 AM | #36 |
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Re: rear wheel bearing grease
Does anyone have an opinion on Lucas Xtra heavy duty wheel bearing grease? It’s the green stuff. Not fibrous.
I’ve been using that with seemingly no I’ll effect, but I don’t drive cross country (or even cross state). |
04-30-2020, 09:30 AM | #37 | |
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I believe this "for rear wheels only" in a Model A stuff is BS.
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04-30-2020, 09:32 AM | #38 |
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Greases are oils thickened with soaps of one type or another. Sodium fiber is the old standard for fibrous grease soaps but aluminum soap is the most fibrous type. Stay-Lube's data sheet lists it as a sodium short fiber based grease. Soda soap is good stuff. That's why it's still around after more than 100 years of use.
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04-30-2020, 01:49 PM | #39 |
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Re: rear wheel bearing grease
Drum brakes don't get nearly as hot as disc brakes. Most likely it is labeled DRUM BRAKE because it would get thin as water with the heat of disc brakes and leak past seals that are meant to keep dirt out not grease in.
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04-30-2020, 02:12 PM | #40 |
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Stay-Lube (CRC) makes a high temp disk brake wheel bearing grease too but it's an aluminum complex grease. It can work up to 325 degrees F. The drum brake type has a high point working temp up to 250 degrees F.
It 's a bit of a trade off between sodium based soaps and aluminum based soaps. Sodium has a bit better anti wear capability than aluminum based so they add moly and graphite to the disk stuff. The price is likely a bit higher on the drum type brake stuff due to the lack of drum type brakes that are in use these days. Almost everything has gone to disk brakes. |
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