Hi,
The gobs of grease in the inside of the hub does basically nothing. You
want to make sure that the bearings are greased completely by "pushing"
the grease through _both ways_ and then slowly turning the bearing and
pushing it through again. Once there are no voids in the grease, the
bearing is packed - install it.
A lot of amatuers put all sorts of grease in the space between the
inner/outer bearings - a lot of old timers tell me this is a waste, but
I'm not sure if its a waste of material, time or both.
As pointed out in other posts, if you media blast the hub and repaint, you
want to be extra careful to remove all the grease that was in the hub and
you want to clean the part completely before you reinstall and pack the
bearings. One small piece of crud in there will make your bearings "toast"
in no time. If the crud is abrasive, the time to failure will be
relatively short...
rml
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