Road trip from Fairbanks Alaska to Arkansas

[fiver]

my FIL had a super nice tool for packing bearings, but he done about 500000000 of them a year.
he offered it to me when he retired, but since i might do 2 a year i can put on a pair of rubber gloves and just pack them by hand like i was taught in high school shop my freshman year.
sept the boat, it wears bearing buddy's and gets gooped up like 4-5 times a year.

 

[RicinYakima]

Anyone here old enough to remember when Chrysler products had enclosed drive shaft joints you had to hand pack? My first car, a 41 Plymouth Special Deluxe had them and I didn't know you had to do that every thousand miles when you changed oil. My Dad was not happy when I burned one out, as it took many junk yards to find a good one.

 

[smokeywolf]

I learned to pack bearings when I was about 12 years old. That's when Dad pretty much turned over the family auto maintenance to me.

Another thing most people don't know is, just like with many other things, there's such a thing as too much of a good thing with grease. Too much and balls and rollers have to slog through it. That actually causes friction and therefore increased heat.

 

[fiver]

then when the grease hits about 350-F it drops all the oil out of suspension.

 

[JonB]

So, when the orange light comes on, it's time to grease the wheel bearings?

 

[Glaciers]

Guy didn’t read the smoke signals in his review mirror?