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05-08-2017, 02:36 PM | #1 |
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rear wheel bearing grease
Finally making some progress getting my brakes put together, ready to put the bearings and seals in the rear hubs. Randy Gross recommends this grease for the rear (only) wheel bearings. Says that it's much less likely to get past the seal and on to all the new brake goodies. Any opinions? (silly question)
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05-08-2017, 02:45 PM | #2 |
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Re: rear wheel bearing grease
i dont see why not, like oils - anything nowadays is better than 80 years ago.
I used mystic JT6 red stringly clingy stuff, the AA rear wheel bearings take just about a 1lb can each...
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05-08-2017, 02:51 PM | #3 |
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Re: rear wheel bearing grease
Apparently grease like JT6 is for tapered bearings. Are AA rear wheel bearings like A?
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05-08-2017, 02:53 PM | #4 |
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Re: rear wheel bearing grease
The Sta-Lube drum brake grease is what I use on my rear wheel bearings on my 1931 slant Town Sedan.
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05-08-2017, 03:05 PM | #5 |
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Re: rear wheel bearing grease
What John in Illinois says mirrors what I have heard from many others. The old long-fiber greases hold up better in the rear wheel bearings than the newer high temp greases that are designed for close tolerance needle or tapered bearings. Several of the flathead V-8 guys that drive a lot of highway miles found this out the hard way.
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05-08-2017, 07:25 PM | #8 |
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Re: rear wheel bearing grease
Please tell me where I can buy "Sta-Lube heavy duty brake drum grease"?
I want this precise product. I find many similar products on sites like Amazon, but I want the correct product for my rear wheel bearings, but cannot find that green can pictured in the first entry on this subject. (I don't want to make the mistake of using Mobil One grease again - it ruined one of my rear wheel bearing races, and it was a long and painful process to take apart the rear differential "trumpet assembly" and get a replacement race pressed on.) Thanks. |
05-08-2017, 08:24 PM | #9 |
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Re: rear wheel bearing grease
The CRC / StaLube part number for this grease is SL3131
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05-08-2017, 09:12 PM | #10 |
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Re: rear wheel bearing grease
A lot of interesting back references to the Model A can be found in the 1932 Service Bulletins ie; long fiber wheel bearing grease and the use of SAE 140 wt. gear oil in both the trans & rear end.
Sta-Lube SAE 140 GL-4 #SL24238 "Not corrosive to copper, bronze or other non-ferrous alloy bearings & bushings" as found in Model A transmissions. 140 wt. is easier to shift during cooler, early winter and spring driving. No, I don't own stock in the company but I've had good results from their products. Just sharing. JB |
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05-08-2017, 10:11 PM | #12 |
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Looks like NAPA sells it.
https://www.napaonline.com/en/p/SLCSL3131 |
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Always wondered about that fibrous stuff in wheel bearing grease.
So it is just the grease clinging together? http://www.practicalmachinist.com/vb...7/#post1029867 |
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This grease is NOT available at Advance, Auto Zone, O'Reilly's, Pep Boys.
As mentioned above, it is available at NAPA. I have to go to the NAPA store in Los Angeles to buy it as some of the smaller NAPA locations don't stock it. It is a hit and miss with them. |
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I bought it at Amazon...
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I lubed up one of the rear bearings yesterday... this stuff is thick! You have to work at it to get it down in the rollers. One of these little cans should be life time supply for one car, probably many cars for the amount they get driven.
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05-09-2017, 10:31 AM | #19 |
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??? 14 oz. same as the picture at the top post
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Thank you to all who have answered my questions!
I've ordered it from NAPA. |
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Local NAPA didn't have it in stock, but ordered it for a two day delivery to the store for $6.49
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You do know that suggesting anywhere else but Pep Boys is sheer blasphemy
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Maybe five suppliers popped up fpr around $5 a Green Can. Here is one. https://www.finditparts.com/products...FcWFswod0N8HsA |
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04-29-2020, 07:57 AM | #27 |
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Re: rear wheel bearing grease
Talking about rear differential grease, when you lube with a grease gun,the fitting outboard below the brake backing plate, what is the purpose of it? I lubed it with the hub off and grease came out of the axel housing between the axel and the housing. Is it designed to get grease in the hub roller bearing area when I install the hub?
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Thats why its there. Most folks don't use it and just pack the bearings once in awhile. Once that fitting is cleaned out I don't have a problem using it. A couple squeezes once in awhile won't hurt anything. |
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04-29-2020, 04:00 PM | #29 |
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Re: rear wheel bearing grease
As for that grease fitting behind the backing plate......unless you completely clean out the old solid grease from the passage way from it to the bearing, Don't use it !
As mentioned, once a year I'd give that fitting a shot.....now with the rear disassembled I found where it went. Not to the wheel bearing but since it couldn't get there, it went passed the seal. Must have been a tube of grease the length of both axles ! O' What an un-enjoyable mess to remove. (And now you don't have to !) jb |
04-29-2020, 04:41 PM | #30 |
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If Randy says use it - take it for Gospel!! He knows what he is doing and is a GREAT guy!
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04-29-2020, 04:53 PM | #31 |
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It took Ford years to get rid of those grease fittings but they eventually deleted them for Banjo axles. They have always been ineffective for the rear wheel bearings and end up greasing the brake shoes more than anything.
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Re: rear wheel bearing grease
The shape of the two are different is what I understood? It stays on the flat roller better than a tapered one?
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Anyway, I have used it for a long time on front and back with no ill affects.
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Online orders ship free to your local store if they don't stock it normally.
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04-30-2020, 01:06 AM | #36 |
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Does anyone have an opinion on Lucas Xtra heavy duty wheel bearing grease? It’s the green stuff. Not fibrous.
I’ve been using that with seemingly no I’ll effect, but I don’t drive cross country (or even cross state). |
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I believe this "for rear wheels only" in a Model A stuff is BS.
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04-30-2020, 09:32 AM | #38 |
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Greases are oils thickened with soaps of one type or another. Sodium fiber is the old standard for fibrous grease soaps but aluminum soap is the most fibrous type. Stay-Lube's data sheet lists it as a sodium short fiber based grease. Soda soap is good stuff. That's why it's still around after more than 100 years of use.
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Drum brakes don't get nearly as hot as disc brakes. Most likely it is labeled DRUM BRAKE because it would get thin as water with the heat of disc brakes and leak past seals that are meant to keep dirt out not grease in.
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Stay-Lube (CRC) makes a high temp disk brake wheel bearing grease too but it's an aluminum complex grease. It can work up to 325 degrees F. The drum brake type has a high point working temp up to 250 degrees F.
It 's a bit of a trade off between sodium based soaps and aluminum based soaps. Sodium has a bit better anti wear capability than aluminum based so they add moly and graphite to the disk stuff. The price is likely a bit higher on the drum type brake stuff due to the lack of drum type brakes that are in use these days. Almost everything has gone to disk brakes. |
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