[Zmagnette] wheel bearing lubrication

[Steven Trovato]

What you and FRM said is very much in line with my thinking on 
this.  The main problem I'm having right now is grease on the wheels, 
so I am going to inspect and maybe clean some excess grease 
out.  Filling the grease cup/dust cap makes no sense to me, but it is 
in the manual.

-Steve T.

At 04:36 PM 3/1/2014, Steve Kirby wrote:
>Once had a bearing distributor guy give a chat to my Machine 
>Maintenance class.  Amongst the many things he made real clear was 
>exactly what FRM said:  To much grease definitely causes 
>overheating.  The cap on the car is a dust cap, not a grease 
>cup.  Filling it with grease accomplishes nothing other than making 
>a mess.  How exactly, if you filled the cap with greas, is it 
>supposed to get into the bearings?  By some kind of reverse 
>centrifigal force?  Or, by heat?  Like if it gets hot enough for the 
>grease in the cap to melt into your bearings . . . . hmmmm, 
>Abingdon  . . . we have a problem if it is getting that hot.