Re: Wheel Bearings

Scott F (sfoshee@yahoo.com)
Wed, 7 Jul 1999 07:48:48 -0700 (PDT)


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West Wight Potter Website at URL
http://www.lesbois.com/wwpotter/
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My bearing buddies have a little overflow hole. I
pump them up until grease comes out there. It seems
to work OK.

- Scott
Charleston

--- Harry Gordon <hlg@pacbell.net> wrote:
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> West Wight Potter Website at URL
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> I guess I don't know for sure. When I first got my
> boat and trailer it
> already had Bearing Buddies. Not knowing any better
> and not having the
> instructions, I just greased the bearings the way I
> was taught to lube
> landing gear on Navy aircraft: pump grease in until
> clean grease comes out
> somewhere. In this case, the "somewhere" was the
> back of the wheel. I would
> then wipe off the grease, and thereafter (if not
> before} my wheels flung
> grease, messing up the trailer but not really doing
> any damage. I don't
> know if I "blew" the seals or the grease was just
> forced through the seals,
> probably the latter. In either case, it apparently
> caused the seals to leak
> grease afterward.
>
> Later I learned that I was only supposed to inject
> enough grease to move
> the disk outward, overcoming the spring pressure.
> I've been using that
> method since my last repack and haven't noticed any
> leakage.
>
> >-----Original Message-----
> >From: Harry Gordon <hlg@pacbell.net>
> >To: wwpotter@tscnet.com <wwpotter@tscnet.com>
> >Date: Tuesday, July 06, 1999 16:02
> >Subject: RE: Wheel Bearings
> >
> >
> >==========>snip<==========
> >>That must be a later model Bearing Buddy. My
> (very) old ones just blow the
> >>seals if you overfill.
> >
> >
> >Harry: have you really blown (i.e. damaged) the
> seals, or blown by them?
> >I've never had any seal damage from this cause, but
> you're the second person
> >to have used that terminology so I'm really
> curious.
> >
> >Thanks -- dwf
> >
> >==========>snip<==========
> >>anyone have experience with Spindle-Lube axles or
> hubs?
> >>
> >>Harry Gordon
> >>P14 #234 Manatee
> >>Mountain View, CA
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