I am installing WARN hubs and thought this would be a good time to repack the front bearings. What type of grease do you guys suggest and how much grease do you repack the bearings with? Is this a good time to replace the bearings. Any thoughts or suggestions are appreciated.

 

I just use a good High speed grease.

As for how much, just basic bearing packing. Push it in and keep pushing it in until it comes out the other sside. I still use the "palm of your hand" tenchnique but you can get bearing packers that do it in one push I guess for those in a hurry. I just prefer to see each area get fully packed and move on.

Put a glob of grease in the palm of your hand, then hold the bearing and scrape a flat side pushing down and keep repeating until it squirts out the top side, then rotate it and keep repeating until the whole thing is packed full between all the little rollers.

Lee

 

Thanks Lee.

 

Yeah palm of the hand routine works. Be sure to thoroughly clean the old bearings and the hub. Dry the roller bearing well but do not use air to make the rollers spin, supposedly they can be damaged if spun too fast without grease.

The bearing should look almost like new with no blue discoloring(heat) and no rough spots and the rollers should turn easily by hand.

When you put the 4WD hub back in lubricate it very lightly, no gobs of grease there. At least this is for Ford factory manual locking hubs on my 94 F250.

Good Luck,

Jim Henderson