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<DIV>Once had a bearing distributor guy give a chat to my Machine Maintenance
class. Amongst the many things he made real clear was exactly what FRM
said: To much grease definitely causes overheating. The cap on the
car is a dust cap, not a grease cup. Filling it with grease accomplishes
nothing other than making a mess. How exactly, if you filled the cap with
greas, is it supposed to get into the bearings? By some kind of reverse
centrifigal force? Or, by heat? Like if it gets hot enough for the
grease in the cap to melt into your bearings . . . . hmmmm, Abingdon . . .
we have a problem if it is getting that hot.</DIV>
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<DIV>Final "point" here. My father-in-law managed a coke plant. They
hired a new person, and he very zealously was doing a seemingly great job.
He decided to lube (zerk fittings) the two pillow bearings on this large
rotating shaft every week. There was a temperature gauge on the pillow
block of the bearings. The temperature went up, so he lubed it some
more. He kept repeating this until there was a failure. When all was
replaced, he started in again . . . not having learned. Wise old
father-in-law told him to knock it off, and the temperature soon went down, and
stayed there.</DIV>
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style="FONT: 10pt arial; BACKGROUND: #e4e4e4; font-color: black"><B>From:</B>
<A title=strovato@optonline.net href="mailto:strovato@optonline.net">Steven
Trovato</A> </DIV>
<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>To:</B> <A title=zmagnette@autox.team.net
href="mailto:zmagnette@autox.team.net">List for the Z Magnette Group - North
America</A> </DIV>
<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Sent:</B> Saturday, March 01, 2014 11:48
AM</DIV>
<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Subject:</B> [Zmagnette] wheel bearing
lubrication</DIV>
<DIV><BR></DIV>How much grease do you guys use for front wheel bearings?
On <BR>American cars, I typically pack the bearing itself and smear maybe a
<BR>finger's worth of grease on the outside of the bearing once
<BR>installed. I do not put grease in the cap. The Magnette manual
says <BR>to refill the cap with grease every 6000 miles. I have grease
<BR>streaks on my wheels, and I have not yet opened things up to
<BR>investigate. Bearings are due for an inspection
anyway.<BR><BR>-Steve
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