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I am replacing the front inner and outer bearings on an old two-cylinder. I cleaned out all the crud in the hubs. I will pack the inner and outer bearings with red bearing grease.

My question is when the wheel is fully assembled, how does the far, inner bearing get grease? There's a lot of space between the hub grease fitting and that inner bearing. That's just the way it is, or am I suppose to fill the entire inside hub with bearing grease? The entire space between the inner and outer bearing? So, that way, later when I grease the front wheels, fully assembled, the grease I put in will force the grease in the center of the hub into the inner bearing? [/list]
 
It sounds like you have never packed wheel bearings before. I bet there is a Youtube video that can tell you more in 5 min. than I can in 20 typing.

Basically you pack the new cones with grease, smear some on the cups and pack about 1/2 a teacup full in the cavity between them.
Pack does not mean smear a little grease on the outside Force as much in between the rollers as you possibly can.
 
trk has it right. The grease migrates through the bearings even though the hub isn't full. Filling the hub full probably would not be a problem on a tractor but on a road vehicle the bearings would overheat.
 
The grease you put in and on the bearings is all they will every get. On slow speed stuff that was to work in mud and dirt all of it s life they put in zerks and greasing them is designed to push out the dirt and dirty grease out past the seals. So yes the only way to really grease the wheels with a grease gun is pack the hub or just pump it full after putting it back together.(Unless yours is a working farm tractor I would just pack them like a car bearing and forget it for 10 years)
 
(quoted from post at 20:18:30 08/15/15) The grease you put in and on the bearings is all they will every get. On slow speed stuff that was to work in mud and dirt all of it s life they put in zerks and greasing them is designed to push out the dirt and dirty grease out past the seals. So yes the only way to really grease the wheels with a grease gun is pack the hub or just pump it full after putting it back together.(Unless yours is a working farm tractor I would just pack them like a car bearing and forget it for 10 years)
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That's what I thought. Thanks.
 
My tractors have zerks on the outside of the outer bearings so the hubs are also full of grease. i grease them so that there is grease being pushed out past the inner bearing. I also install the seals so that the lip faces away from the bearing. i want to seal water and dirt out but let the excess grease pass by the seal lip without damaging it.
 

Ok, that's what I'll do so I know both the outer and inner bearings are getting grease when using the hub grease fitting. Thanks.
 
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