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SCOTT IN MO

09-11-2003 17:27:36




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I have an H farmall and was wondering is there any benefit to putting a grease fitting on the front hubs . I've seen this done on several IH tractors . the grease fittins are in the caps.Or is just as good to pack the bearings. THANKS FOR ANY HELP.




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Bill Smith

09-12-2003 11:52:45




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 Re: grease fitting on front hubs in reply to SCOTT IN MO, 09-11-2003 17:27:36  
I agree with all that has been said. Especially the statement's about using wheel bearing grease and not multi-purpose, and the one about doing a good job packing the wheel bearing. When packing a wheel bearing, make sure the bearing gets full of grease in-between all the rollers. You can do this simply by putting grease on the palm of your hand, and with bearing in the other hand smash the grease right into the bearing. Its messy, but you can get it full of grease this way if you don't have one of those fancy bearing greasing deals. Also when packing bearings, I always clean the inside of the hub real good and fill the inside cavity of the hub full of wheel bearing grease. If you don't, the grease will work its way out of the bearing and into this area where it won't do the bearing any good. If this area is full of grease, the grease in the bearing can't work its way out into this area because its allready full. You will probably use up the entire can of grease doing this, but hay grease is cheap and no reason not to do it. Greasing by way of zerk in dust cap isn't going to be near as good as doing a bearing packing job. Even if using the zerk, I would still plan on doing a packing job ever so many operating hours. Maybe more hours than if not using the zerk.

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Hugh MacKay

09-12-2003 17:28:46




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 Re: Re: grease fitting on front hubs in reply to Bill Smith, 09-12-2003 11:52:45  
Bill: I will agree with you on the wheel bearing grease. However if you grease right, with factory installed zerks, no problem. I can tell you front hubs were never off my 656 in 13,000 hours They were off my 1066 in 11,000 hours but not for greasing, broken spindles was the reason. Both those tractors went the time with original bearings and seals



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Randy in NE

09-12-2003 04:55:57




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 Re: grease fitting on front hubs in reply to SCOTT IN MO, 09-11-2003 17:27:36  
Keep in mind that filling the dust cap with grease isn't necessarily going to get the grease into the bearings. Especially the inner one. If your hub was designed with a gease zerk I would go for it. Since it wasn't I would personally want to take the hub off and manually pack them. I have seen people rub grease on a bearing and think that they have "packed" it. Most of these old tractors aren't being "used and abused" like they were when they were the "big" tractor on the farm. It doesn't take much to re-pack a bearing. Easier than replacing the bearing and race. Just my $0.02 worth.

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Farmer John

09-11-2003 21:08:50




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 Re: grease fitting on front hubs in reply to SCOTT IN MO, 09-11-2003 17:27:36  
Scott
If you do put grease zerks in the dust caps be SURE and use a grease that is designed for wheel bearings and not the plain old multipurpose stuff. I had a lot of problems using multi purpose grease on disc harrows, wagons, tractor front wheels etc. that had greasable hubs. I changed bearings frequently and finally started using a grease that would cover everything from wheelbearings to 3point hitches. I use Exxon Ronex but you can decide for yourself what's best. Just don't make the mistake I made and use multi as your wheels may fall off!

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SCOTT IN MO

09-11-2003 18:35:40




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 Re: grease fitting on front hubs in reply to SCOTT IN MO, 09-11-2003 17:27:36  
Thanks for the advice COWMAN



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Hugh MacKay

09-11-2003 18:32:41




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 Re: grease fitting on front hubs in reply to SCOTT IN MO, 09-11-2003 17:27:36  
Scott: It wasn't too many years after your H that IH started installing zerks in the front wheels My memory is a bit rusty but I think my 560 had them. I know 656 and 1066 had zerks in front hubs. Cant be all bad.



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Nebraska Cowman

09-11-2003 17:57:38




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 Re: grease fitting on front hubs in reply to SCOTT IN MO, 09-11-2003 17:27:36  
unless you are driving through water packed bearings should be good for years. When I was a kid at home we drove through the creek and had lots of trouble with bearings. In that case fittings and using them often should solve the problem. Always reminds me of a story an old man told me once. He traded in a pickup truck and the dealer was stupid enough to ask him the condition; he said "It is all wore out except for the grease zerks, they've never been used"

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