<VV> Help!!!!!

[jvhroberts at aol.com]

 Agreed. IMHO, the real problem with the rear wheel bearings on LMs has to do more with the quality of the grease more than anything else. 

Replace them, pack them with a top grade synthetic grease, THE RIGHT way, meaning just the bearings and nothing else (the grease doesn't move around, so why pack the crap out of the hub?), and you'll probably NEVER have to mess with them again! Ages ago, I used Shell Darina EP. Being a farm kid, this is what John Deere carried, for some reason. Anyway, the guy who got my 65, last I checked, 25 years later and 140,000 miles, is still running these hubs and hasn't touched them. 

I've never been a fan of the grease fitting approach, for all the reasons Bob mentions. 

 

John Roberts
 

 

-----Original Message-----
From: BobHelt at aol.com
To: judynrandy at comcast.net; virtualvairs at corvair.org
Sent: Sat, Mar 27, 2010 11:10 am
Subject: Re: <VV> Help!!!!!


 
In a message dated 3/26/2010 9:04:48 P.M. US Mountain Standard Time,  
judynrandy at comcast.net writes:

I want to install grease fittings on the axle hubs of a '65  Monza 4-dr. 


Randy,
Don't do it. 
 
That cavity in the hub is HUGE and you will be pumping grease into there  
for a long time. Then you have no way of knowing whether any grease reached 
both  bearing or even one bearing. You will know to stop pumping when the 
grease  starts squirting out one of the seals and continues to weap grease 
forvever  probably onto your brake shoes. is that what you want?
Regards,
Bob Helt
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