Wheel Bearing (hub) greasable thru ABS fastener hole?
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From: Jersey georgia
OK, so what is killing the bearings? Lack of grease? water? heat? Big tires and wheels with a different offset? I don't know exactly but if some people are getting 200k+ out of stock, untouched bearings then it might not be lack of grease. Remember that the inner and outer bearing is only about 1/4 inch apart, so if you change the wheel offset and tire size much you're going to be quite different from what it was designed to handle. Also the weight of a plow up front with all the turning of plowing is going to be tough on them. These trucks were not designed to be modded out if you want them to go the long miles,,, just my 2cents.
that is lubed for life is " majoring in minors". My truck has 136,000 and no bearing problems, but truck is stock, no offsets. no 35's, no snow plough's just a plain old stock truck with sealed bearings. The difinition of insanity is doing something that does not work and doing it again.
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When I replaced my ball joints and u joints I put greese in the abs hole and did notice that the hub began to spin more freely than before. I put the greese in with a needle, I think it will help them last longer, and no abs light when done.
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I the process of installing the Dynatrac kit in I did look inside the factory hubs through the ABS hole. Yep, there is grease in there and there is the tnoe ring. So if you want, when doing a brake job you could re pack the bearings easily at that time by carefully pulling out the ABS sensor and pump un the grease through a needle. I guess a good full syn grease would be the best.
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This worked like a champ. I had a little squeek coming from my driver side bearing on my 3500 4x4. I pulled it apart and followed the directions given on page 3 of this thread and it solved my problem. i have a couple pics I took as I had noticed there were several requests on here for some pics of the process.
Great idea, thanks for everyone contributing to saving my bearings and my money.
Great idea, thanks for everyone contributing to saving my bearings and my money.
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I know this is an old thread but I thought I would give you guys some updated information. Go to Courtsara.com the tip section and you can see pictures of the procedure. I have done this on hundreds of trucks and drastically increased the life of the hub. I have also found that I have to do this every 30 to 40k miles.
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Greaser1 is right. When I started greasing those wheel bearing assemblies, I didn't have to replace them anymore. It only takes a few minutes to grease a wheel bearing when your doing a brake job. You can buy a "wheel bearing greaser" on ebay that makes the job easy and it comes with instructions. It is nice to save money and have peace of mind. It irritated me to know that I was driving a truck that was failing for a lack of grease.
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I wanted to add another thing. SKF has come out with 5 sided hex tamper proof screws holding the abs in. Napa usually sells them. McMaster has a tool, 5043A27, which will remove that bolt. I recommend that you keep the old bolt from the failed hub and use it to replace the tamper proof one.
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From: Geary Co. Kansas
I just read the tip on courtsara.com. Good info and simple it seems to do. Definitely gonna try this out. Biggest thing is like the article said is getting the abs ring cleaned off.
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The wheel bearing greaser that I use from ebay gives you one hand free to rotote the wheel bearing assembly while you grease because it fits in the abs hole and holds itself in place. It also does not pressurize the seals because it lifts out of the hole automatically if it feels pressure.
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Sealed from the outside... if you look in the hole, you can see the inner sides are essentially "open". Still not sold on this procedure, but I have seen no negatives so far and only people that just keep saying "it's a sealed unit".
My thoughts so far is, probably worth a shot if your there. Some people like to talk about not getting the grease packed, but in my opinion, hot grease will get in there with time. Just like how these thing tend to dry out with time...
These aren't necessarily "sealed" units as more of a non "rebuildable" unit...
My thoughts so far is, probably worth a shot if your there. Some people like to talk about not getting the grease packed, but in my opinion, hot grease will get in there with time. Just like how these thing tend to dry out with time...
These aren't necessarily "sealed" units as more of a non "rebuildable" unit...
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From: Geary Co. Kansas
Texan1983 hit the nail on the head!! Supposed to be non rebuildable. There is always more than one way to skin a cat!! That's why these forums exist in my opinion, to learn new ideas and ways of doing things.
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