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Re: [Healeys] Packing front wheel bearings

To: "Healey Bruce" <healeybruce@roadrunner.com>, "Healey Mail Group"
Subject: Re: [Healeys] Packing front wheel bearings
From: tld6008@mchsi.com
Date: Tue, 07 Jul 2009 17:57:56 +0000
 I made an adapter for my slide hammer to thread onto the cups stud and it 
pulls right off every time. I don't see how packing the cup with grease will 
replace packing the bearing, it needs to be pulled to pack it properly.

--
Tim Davis BN7 
  -------------- Original message from "Healey Bruce" 
<healeybruce@roadrunner.com>: --------------


> Given that I've not packed a front wheel bearing since high school, I 
> checked the service manual, which recommends repacking the grease cups every 
> 6,000 miles.  I then read that, on a disc wheel car (as mine was originally, 
> and converted to wires with Dayton K-A series wheels, rather than 
> replacement with wire wheel hubs) there is a special tool to remove the 
> grease cups.
> 
> So, is there some trick to getting the cups off without damaging them?  I'm 
> also assuming from the description in the manual that one does not pull the 
> nuts and the bearings themselves for packing.  Can someone provide the 
> procedure for pulling the cups and packing the bearings?
> 
> Thanks.
> 
> Bruce Steele
> 1960 BN7
> Brea, CA 
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