I am bringing this up because a fellow I respect deeply who has decades of heavy equipment and heavy trailer experience was helping me lube my bearings getting ready for our 5000 miles fall tour. He commited that I should just fill the oil bath bearing/hub with oil and quit fooling around with trying to get grease distributed properly.
Fill the little cuppy thing with oil and you are done? What about all the grease gun pumping, grease spilling out of unusual places, grease on the tires, grease in the grass, trying to get grease off your hands and out of your clothes? There has to be a catch....
So I searched and found that the main problem with the oil bath is leaking seals. And there is a wide variation of opinion on that subject. But when it works, it works well. When it doesn't you have almost instant bearing failure.
So, is there any new information on the subject? Or pretty much the same pros vs cons as 3-4 years ago?
And just because I like to get my engineer friends riled up a bit I am going to ask a question. Just remember, our teachers told us there was no such thing as a stupid question and just because the answer seems obvious you have to be kind to the person because if they already knew the answer they wouldn't ask the quistion; What would happen if I put 90W in the oil bath hub along with Red Tacky axle grease?
Fill the little cuppy thing with oil and you are done? What about all the grease gun pumping, grease spilling out of unusual places, grease on the tires, grease in the grass, trying to get grease off your hands and out of your clothes? There has to be a catch....
So I searched and found that the main problem with the oil bath is leaking seals. And there is a wide variation of opinion on that subject. But when it works, it works well. When it doesn't you have almost instant bearing failure.
So, is there any new information on the subject? Or pretty much the same pros vs cons as 3-4 years ago?
And just because I like to get my engineer friends riled up a bit I am going to ask a question. Just remember, our teachers told us there was no such thing as a stupid question and just because the answer seems obvious you have to be kind to the person because if they already knew the answer they wouldn't ask the quistion; What would happen if I put 90W in the oil bath hub along with Red Tacky axle grease?
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