I have one I bought 10 years ago or so. Did lots of bearings, no issues. What I do if I have a bearing that's too large for the packer, is use a 1 gallon ziplock bag. Put the grease and bearing in the bag , then force the grease into bearing. Helps a lot with the mess, vs using the palm.
I just tried it on my trailer wheel bearings. This thing is awesome. It's satisfying to see the grease push through the cavities and knowing it's done right. Oh and it only takes a few seconds!!!
Heres a slightly cheaper option that I ve used on trailer wheel bearings. Lisle 65250 . Just rest the bearing on the bottom part, thread the top down on the bearing, attach a grease gun to the nipple, and grease em up.
Been hand packing bearings for 60 years busting it old school.never had a failure and I’ve done just about every kind and size that are on the earth some that are huge for tractors,logging machinery,rv trailers.and some as small as a kids bikes
I've always hand packed bearings. And I do it a lot with a 3 axle car haul trailer. But...I'm going to try this tool. One thing I'll do differently. When I pack by hand, the last thing I do is rotate the inner ring. It makes room for a little more grease in the bearing. I'll do the same with this tool also.
Kyle - "tapered roller bearings" Tip: cover the "nastiness" with a 1 liter soda bottle bottom to keep from accumulating dust and making the shop "greasy". ymmv - not sure if the diameter of the grease packer is the same as it was "back in the day" when I got mine - like 1972 when I was working at a Toyota dealer
This tool is cool I remember using it at a shop here i am at my home needing to repack and wanted to see the tool again so i can improvise since i dont have it bahaha
Hey Kyle. Been looking forward to seeing this tool since you featured it recently. Very efficient and you don't wind up with grease on your elbows and behind your ears.😩😂 Playing catchup again. We just hauled my oldest daughter off to college yesterday... been so busy lately. I did see your IG post and wanted to congratulate you and your wife on the big news.🙌 Cheers dude! Have a great weekend!
The smaller end of the bearing goes up towards you not down. The wider diameter of the bearing goes down. Some would say it doesn't matter however the plastic cone is shaped in that manner.
I probable have an idea on a new episode: you could tell about cleaning accessories and chemical for tools and parts, if you use something special. I guess you had lots of experience with different means.
Just for giggles and it's not a tool but a chemical, should do an episode on anti-seize. How not to over use it and how not to get it everywhere and everything 🤣
The truth is as long as bearing are not dry they will rarely fail. Just because you don’t so called pack them doesn’t mean they will fail if you don’t pack a so called right way. Grease will go from a solid to liquid inside a bearing while in use and then back to a solid. I can pull hubs off and take a spoon and just pack grease into the hubs and put them back on using marine grease and won’t have to do it again for a few years or more on non water trailers. Ez lube hubs are even easier, with same principle, good grease and wet bearings keep them from falling.
What kind of wheel bearing grease do you run on your cars? Just bought the packer and am about to do my wheel bearings. Lol that looks purple so I assume royal purple is what you use
I almost wonder if that's over greased. According to most bearing manufacturers, you are only supposed to fill 30-50% of the empty space inside of the bearing. Granted, hard to know exactly what that means.
802 Garage I have never heard a percentage. Besides.. once it gets spinning it will fling a percentage out anyways. You want to pack the bearing so that every surface has a coating of grease. Dipping would produce the percentage you talk about ... But would not allow proper coating.
TurboFlush Not exactly. Go read the Timken article on packing bearings. Also the grease would only fling into the races and seals and still be "inside" the bearing. Otherwise a bearing seal wouldn't be much good. There is a difference between being coated and being packed. In between each of the rollers there is some space, there will also be some space within the race. That's the space I'm talking about filling. I doubt this would cause any issues, it was more just for the sake of discussion. Over greasing a bearing can actually cause premature failure. So it's worth wondering I think.
Boat trailer bearings with buddy caps get stuffed full so I dout there's much to the over packed idea. I always pack them full and never had bearing failure.
This particular style actually allows you to load it with grease or use a grease gun, there's a grease zerk on the top of the center shaft for a great gun connection.
Love it! "Grease Matters" ...... Oh, also, if'n yall are out of your favorite mouth tobacco, you're desperate, you find an old, old dried out half empty/full can, a little dab O' grease will do wonders for it until you can convince the wife-e-poo to run to the store for you! HE HE, Kidding y'all.
Michael Kenyon you can also use it on muffler bearings! When you've finished with that, don't forget to check the blinker fluid level on the lane change indicators. Should show you how in your owner's manual. :)
Still need to learn to pack. Duff bearrings on many cars are bigger than these can hold. They make one that looks like 2 funnels on top of each and you pump grease in with the grease gun. It's very wasteful and has to be cleaned up after use where these bearring buddies do not.
