The Mods are just lazy..... Bearing buddies? I pump til a bunch of grease come out them, is that enough? I know I'm getting grease to the back bearing because the seal is weeping.... All over the inside rim too. Kinda nice, now they wont rust... Just sayin............
The Mods are just lazy..... Bearing buddies? I pump til a bunch of grease come out them, is that enough? I know I'm getting grease to the back bearing because the seal is weeping.... All over the inside rim too. Kinda nice, now they wont rust... Just sayin............
The Mods are just lazy..... Bearing buddies? I pump til a bunch of grease come out them, is that enough? I know I'm getting grease to the back bearing because the seal is weeping.... All over the inside rim too. Kinda nice, now they wont rust... Just sayin............
I used to repack and replace rear seals annually. Then, one year I tried bearing buddies and just maintained them per the instructions. Nine years later I joined this forum and read all about how bad they are. That Fall I pulled all the wheels to repack them, only to find that there was no water in the hubs, all bearings were fully greased and everything was fine. Made me mad that I went thru all that trouble. They haven't been redone ever since.
One of my plant production lines had over 500 bearings, all in a wet harsh chemical environment. We would lose 5 or 6 bearings a week. The downtime to replace them, or even grease them periodically was staggering.
The automatic greasing system I installed was the worst thing I ever did. Ended up replacing all of the mechanical heads with grease nipples. The time for a mechanic to put 2 squirts in each nipple once a day was much less than the time to maintain the automatic system.
I used to repack and replace rear seals annually. Then, one year I tried bearing buddies and just maintained them per the instructions. Nine years later I joined this forum and read all about how bad they are. That Fall I pulled all the wheels to repack them, only to find that there was no water in the hubs, all bearings were fully greased and everything was fine. Made me mad that I went thru all that trouble. They haven't been redone ever since.
