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Do not put off checking and repacking your bearings as it will save you a lot of trouble
down the road. It may be messy but is well worth it, time well spent. Joe spells it out
for you step by step making it all very easy.
Now that we have everything cleaned up and all of the old grease out of the way what
we are going to do is basically is go ahead and get the bearings reinstalled. What we
want to do first is put a layer of grease on the bearing surface to help keep down the
resistance of the initial rolling so we will just put a finger full on there and then do
the same thing for the inner bearing also, take a finger full and just wipe it around
the outside edge a little bit. Again, the grease is going to come out on top of this
here between the seal it is going to pack itself fill all this up and go right back
through the bearing. So now that we have got that initially lubed up we will go ahead and
put the seal back on and we will just tap that back into place. The thing about the
seals it that you do not want to drive them into the bearing at all you want to get them
actually flush with the outside edge here that way you have plenty of movement for this
to seal on top of the spindle itself because sometimes they sit farther back than others.
The same thing for
the front, just
do
a finger full to cover it
in grease, same thing
for the bearing.