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Subject:Re: Inject grease into rear wheel bearings w/o disassembly?
From:Jim Felder <jim.felder@GMAIL.COM>
Date:Mon, 20 Jul 2009 19:58:43 -0500

Oops just noticed that this is about WHEEL bearings not CV BEARINGS.
Please forgive the oversight.

Jim

On Mon, Jul 20, 2009 at 7:34 PM, Tom Hargrave<thargrav@hiwaay.net> wrote:
> Martin,
>
> The most important part of repacking wheel bearings is not replacing the
> grease. The most important part is inspecting the bearings & races for wear
> & damage and re-adjusting your wheel bearing pre-load. Just adding grease to
> a wheel bearing accomplishes none of this.
>
> Thanks,
> Tom Hargrave
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Vanagon Mailing List [mailto:vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM] On Behalf Of
> Poppie Jagersand
> Sent: Monday, July 20, 2009 7:05 PM
> To: vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM
> Subject: Inject grease into rear wheel bearings w/o disassembly?
>
> While under the Vanagon to pull the starter I noticed the rubber boot on the
> passenger side CV joint is torn. No clunks from the CV's yet, so I was
> planning just to order four Febi boot and grease kits from busdepot and
> repack CV's.
>
> I was thinking that a rear wheel repacking might also be good, but I'm too
> busy/(lazy) this summer to also disassemble rear stub axles. (There is no
> sound or sign of the bearings being bad)
>
> Is there some other way to get grease on into the rear wheel bearings? With
> an injection needle?
>
> Martin
>
>
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