My bearing failure story

MEXICOWANDERER wrote:
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You can follow the bouncing ball and buy single tubes online now

http://products.lelubricants.com/category/all-industrial-greases


CHEVRON RED GREASE NLGI No 2

https://cglapps.chevron.com/msdspds/PDSDetailPage.aspx?docDataId=77100&docFormat=PDF

Forget what you read on the PDF page about Black Pearl wheel bearing grease. Chevron outright stole this formula from L.E. and Red Grease will spit in Black Pearl's face. Chevron has never been good at grease except for their stolen formula, Red Grease.

Wish I could find the Red Grease in a small can rather than a tube.

Both greases are virtually the same, even in color. Have lots of rags handy as this stuff is sticky. I use Brake Cleaner to spray down bearings that have been cleaned in solvent. Lab clean. Pack the big and the small end accesses to the bearing, keep revolving and keep packing. The bearings should be impossibly stiff to turn by hand when you're finished. Then take a good look at them, with good spindles and races, you won't be seeing them again, soon. These greases spit water out of them. I have taken a bearing, packed it good, hooked a 40 lb fishing line to it and tossed it out into 80F ocean salt water. A month or whothehellknows how much later, I pulled it in, wiped the grit off the grease and the bearing was like new. Coat a rod, boil water, whip the water into a froth and then remove the rod. Has any of the grease dribbled off? I lubed Jeeps with this stuff then spent a year of submerging the chassis up to the floorboards crossing streams, fording winter slush puddles two feet deep and a year or so later TRIED to re-lube ball joints, u-joints, etc. One slight twitch of a grease gun handle had brand new looking red grease forced out of the seals. Two year old new looking grease. It does make an impression on a person.