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Re: Bearing cap eroding?
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Originally Posted by mr48chev
Make sure that someone didn't trim the cotter key wrong and that it wasn't rubbing in the cap.
Still inspecting and repacking the wheel bearings is just periodic maintenance and if you do it in far less miles than you planned it is just an hour of your time and a little bit of wheel bearing grease.
I'd pull the bearings out, wipe them off with a shop towel and inspect them and properly pack them and reinstall them. Absolutely do not wash them with solvent unless you fully intend to replace them. The solvent never gets out of the bearing and won't allow the grease to stick to the bearing surfaces right. I was taught that 60 years ago as an automechanics student in high school and have followed it and do not have wheel bearing trouble that doesn't have a different cause. In all the years I was doing brakes for a living I never had a car come back with bad wheel bearing after I serviced the bearings.
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Never heard that said about cleaning bearings .
In 50 plus years never had a problem cleaning bearings in lacquer thinner let them dry and repack .
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72 c20 custom camper Husky edition,
66 SS396 Chevelle 1964 Hawk, 63 Avanti,62 lark
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1968 c20 stepside ,85 K20
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