repacking wheel bearings

jjjandrbaker wrote:

Gdetrailer wrote:


The use of bearing buddies on a TT will eventually lead to BRAKE FAILURE when you start pushing grease PAST the inside grease seal which is not designed for PRESSURIZED GREASE..

Thanks for replying to my post. You could say it nicer, but I appreciate the information. Your post led me to researching the bearing buddies to learn more about them. You are right, they are not the wonderful cure all to bearing packing I was led to believe they were. However, what I'm thinking from what you wrote above, and a few other things I saw posted elsewhere, it shouldn't be a problem if I just don't mess with the bearing buddies at all and wait until the next time I am "lazy" and pay someone to repack the bearings again to get them taken off. Do you agree with that? It sounds like it is adding grease with a grease gun that is the problem. If I don't do that, won't they just act like caps?

Yes, but unless they gave you the old "caps", they did a "DOUBLE WHAMMY" on you since you now have to buy new caps to get things back to where they should have been. What you went thru with this "CLUELESS MECHANIC" is why most here say to "suck it up" and do it yourself and then you know it's done right.

While I've done all my oil changes and TT maintenance such as bearings, etc. for over 50 years I'm getting to the age where at some point in the near future I will have to have someone else do these type things and dread the day that comes to pass since I have a real distrust of the quality of service one can get in a lot of cases now days.

Larry

Larry