larry30000 wrote:
Just repacked today, one question did not soak bearings in cleaner, sprayed off with cleaner then dried with towels. Used a bearing packer seen some old grease oozing out and hopefully cleaner too. Have not pulled trailer yet just wondering if I should redo to make sure no cleaner was left in and has contaminated new grease.
H'mm. Well did you use traditional brake cleaner that evaporates off real quick and completely goes away? Or did you use turpentine or some other cleaner that dissolves grease and does not evaporate off like brake cleaner?
I normally always remove all the old grease down to bare steel. The air gun trick helps to to dry them out too. Then you know you have no issues.
I your case the question is is the solvent still 1/2 left in the old grease? If it is, this may not be a good thing. If you are
sure you purged out all the old grease and any solvent, then maybe not an issue.
Maybe some one else who has tried something similar and had a bad experience can chime in here. This one is a judgment call for sure. Not being there to see first hand, it is hard to call from here. If you do not change the grease, do a temp check after your first short trip and then after a few more longer ones.
Good luck and let us know how you make out.
