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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--></head><body lang="EN-US" link="blue" vlink="purple">IIRC, several of the manuals say "pack the hub with grease". One of them even specifies " half full".<br>
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The rationale I've heard is that it helps hold grease in the bearings, if they get hot enough to melt the grease inside them.<br>
-- Randall<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On 24 August 2017 18:26:40 GMT-04:00, Andrew Uprichard <auprichard@uprichard.net> wrote:<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); padding-left: 1ex;">
<div class="WordSection1"><p class="MsoNormal">The first car I restored was under the tutelage of an older guy who had been working on British cars for over a half-century. When we came to the front hubs, they were full of grease. “I don’t know why people do this,” he said.</p><p></p><p class="MsoNormal"></p><p> </p><p class="MsoNormal">I just pulled a car apart and the same thing – front hubs just full of grease. Gobs of the stuff.</p><p></p><p class="MsoNormal"></p><p> </p><p class="MsoNormal">Any reason why people do this? Any rationale?<br /><br />Andrew Uprichard</p><p></p><p class="MsoNormal">Jackson, Michigan</p><p></p></div></blockquote></div></body></html>