packing bearings

[Skiddy]

I have about 12 wheel bearings I need to check/pack this spring. has anyone used the wheel bearing packers? no they work well, are some better than others? my hands start cramping up after a little while, getting old I guess.

 

[Broncobowsher]

I had the 2 white cones that screw together. Tried it a bunch of different ways. Never got it to work right. Tossed it and went back to hand. The last 4 bearings I did were done by hand.

 

[savage]

I've always used one of these for years, and it has never failed me ,and you can pick them up at any auto parts store.

 

[Wyflyer]

I like to get a small deep sauce pan and squeeze two tubes of grease in the pan, then heat on the stove till it starts smoking good but not boiling. It'll turn the grease into a liquid. Drop the bearing into the liquid grease, then take them off and set them out on the porch to cool. After the grease turns solid again, fish the bearings out and install!!

Just kidding, but i always wondered what would happen......

PS get a teenage boy to pack them by hand

 

[Skiddy]

PS get a teenage boy to pack them by hand

lol that would work. I thought about making a tater gun and shoot them into a bucket of grease

 

[Foxconn]

I was 35 before I figured out why I was always the one who packed the bearings.

 

[Vin218]

I use one called the handy packer, think I got it at Oreilly's and its worked fine for me.

 

[Slednut10]

My favorite tool for packing bearings

 

[Skiddy]

I've always used one of these for years, and it has never failed me ,and you can pick them up at any auto parts store.

looks like it has a grease zerk to use a grease gun on. I just picked up an IR pneumatic gun at a garage sale for five bucks. so maybe less pumping anymore;D

 

[blubuckaroo]

Before every cotton picking season, Dad would point me to a five gallon can of grease and crescent wrench, and a big screwdriver, and had me pack wheel bearings on all the cotton trailers. There were fifteen trailers.
That's all. A crescent wrench and a screwdriver. Sure I needed a jack, but I used the three point on the tractor for that anyway.
I guess what I'm saying is...why complicate a simple task?

 

[bigjhoov]

I use this, love it. I packed them by hand before.

http://www.lislecorp.com/divisions/products/?product=192

 

[sprdv1]

I've always used one of these for years, and it has never failed me ,and you can pick them up at any auto parts store.

Got one of these, but only used it once....

 

[71broncman]

I've always used one of these for years, and it has never failed me ,and you can pick them up at any auto parts store.

I've used one like this for years too. I have a grease gun that is used just for wheel bearings to keep cross contamination of grease from occurring. It is still messy but, not as much as packing by hand.
Mark.

 

[Skiddy]

I guess what I'm saying is...why complicate a simple task?

well you know what they say, older and wiser well sometimes;D

 

[blubuckaroo]

well you know what they say, older and wiser well sometimes;D

Well, greasing wheel bearings goes back a long way.

 

[Yeller]

I use one of these. I do 20+ sets of bearings every year and it's about 30 minutes to do a tandem axle trailer start to finish. It works well and fast
http://www.lislecorp.com/divisions/products/?product

 

[bamabaja]

No luck on link. Could u list part number ? Thanks.

 

[wpaeb]

I use this, love it. I packed them by hand before.

https://www.amazon.com/Lisle-34550-Handy-Packer-Bearing/dp/B0002NYDYO

I have been using this one for 25 years. GearWrench 2775D Hand Bearing Packer. Mine is K-D gearwrench must of bought them.
I can mostly spin the bearing after grease starts to come out to coat the outside.


I also have a Lisle 34550 Handy Packer Bearing Packer at the farm.

 

[bigjhoov]

No luck on link. Could u list part number ? Thanks.

I'm guessing this.....

http://www.lislecorp.com/divisions/products/?product=192

 

[Wyflyer]

I need a tool to remind me to put the bearing in the hub before installing the seal....