How are people packing and repacking their main wheel bearings with grease?
I ask because I initially tried packing my main wheel bearings with Aeroshell 22 grease via the Lisle 34550 Handy Packer Bearing Packer. Even with putting all my weight on the plunger of the Handy Packer and trying to tilt the plunger some, I was only able to get the grease to flow about an eighth of inch up into the bearing. Yes, I did have integral seal on the top.
So, I switched to the traditional hand packing method. I still could not get the grease to fully flow from one end of the roller to the other. So, I manually packed grease into the area of the end of roller near the integral seal.
Any thoughts on how to do this better? Would it have helped if the warmed up the grease some to make it easier to flow? Regarding repacking these bearings, I’m assuming that these bearings will need to first be cleaned with solvent to remove the old grease since I cannot get new grease to flow across the bearing to push out the old grease.
Thanks.
Brett
Columbus, IN