[Zmagnette] wheel bearing lubrication

[michael mitchell]

Folk'z,  az Far az I Remember,  You Pump (Manually) Greaze into a Zirc Fitting,
Once Greaze Come'z OUT, Ur Done.
Michael.
 

 
> Date: Sat, 1 Mar 2014 16:46:37 -0500
> From: strovato at optonline.net
> To: zmagnette at autox.team.net; zmagnette at autox.team.net
> Subject: Re: [Zmagnette] wheel bearing lubrication
> 
> 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.
> 
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