Grease your stinkin bearings!!!

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Grease your stinkin bearings!!!

Post by Sandblaster » Mon Aug 04, 2014 10:17 pm

Grease your stinkin bearings!!!
Brand new sealed USA bearings and this is how they come..
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Looks like they got a squirt of WD-40 on them and called it good.
No wonder guys are toasting their bearings after one season.
When you get a new bike or any new sealed bearings, take the seals off and pack them good.
Our local bearing house recommends 1/3 total capacity.
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Re: Grease your stinkin bearings!!!

Post by Sandblaster » Fri Aug 15, 2014 5:31 pm

Here is a perfect example...
A guy sold me a 07 Polaris Phoenix 200 quad because it had a bad noise in the rear end.
He said he thought it was the rear brake but it sounded like a much bigger problem to me so I bought it cheap.
When you tried to turn the rear axle it would squeak like crazy.
Here was the problem.
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Re: Grease your stinkin bearings!!!

Post by Sandblaster » Fri Aug 15, 2014 5:35 pm

And believe me when I say that this bearing did not want to come out.
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After the heat was applied it came out with some difficulty but, it came out.
If the previous owner had taken it to a shop to get it fixed it would have cost at least a few hundred dollars.
Why?
Cause the manufactures aren't putting any or very little grease in their bearings :o :shock: :?

SO GREASE YOUR STINKIN BEARINGS :ugeek:
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Re: Grease your stinkin bearings!!!

Post by Sandblaster » Fri Aug 15, 2014 6:42 pm

So, I took a little trip to our local bearing house and picked up a replacement bearing for $10.
First things first, I opened it and confirmed that it had grease in it.
The bearing house told me that it should be at 1/3 total capacity.
Check!
Clean the bearing mating surface.
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Check!

Install bearing.
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Check!

Next!
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