[Zmagnette] wheel bearing lubrication

[Steve Kirby]

that's the point:  that is often too much grease
  ----- Original Message ----- 
  From: michael mitchell 
  To: List for the Z Magnette Group - North America 
  Sent: Saturday, March 01, 2014 6:44 PM
  Subject: Re: [Zmagnette] wheel bearing lubrication


  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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