re-packing greasing the bearings / axle

Grit dog wrote:

FYI you don't need to "pack" the bearings when adding grease to get it in there.

:E :h Sorry that has to part of what I can only call the " put a couple of squirts of grease" to "top them up" crazy idea. Unless you take the bearing out and press the grease into the rollers there is no way the grease will magically "flow" from one side of the bearing to the other. If that were the case then all the grease would flow out of the bearings since they are open on both sides.

Bearing buddies work better I think than just popping the cap and adding grease but they open one up to blowing out the rear seal with too much grease.


When you lay a bunch of grease in around the castle nut and toss th cap back on, it gets to both bearings after some driving. If it didn't, you'd see that fresh blob of grease sitting there when you popped the cap again after those road trips. Period.


Again sorry but that idea can only at best be called HOGWASH and IMO clearly shows your TOTAL LACK of understanding the axles, hubs, and drums used on TT and how they are constructed. There is a HUGE CAVITY between the spindle and the drum between the two bearings whose volume is close to 1/3 top 1/2 tube of grease and is initially empty after a tear down, cleaning, and bearing repack. I know this size because that is the amount of grease you have to add to an EZ lube axle via the zerk fitting after a complete tear down and repack to get the grease to start showing up around the washer and castle nut on the end of the spindle. So even if the grease "
IMMACULATELY MIGRATES" from one side of say the outside bearing to the indside of that bearing it would simply fall into that cavity and never reach the inner bearing.


Like my first post I told the op there is no one set answer.


Maybe not, but some of your responses and ideas have at least IMHO clearly demonstrated there are still some crazy and BAD ideas and answers floating around.