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Offline GeoffNeal

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Re: Which Brand of Bearing Grease Do You Use ?
« Reply #25 on: August 10, 2013, 11:48:18 AM »
Nulon extreme disc brake (red) for me........ Serviced the bearings before our big trip to Queensland from Adelaide and even after 5-600 km's a day at 110 km's/hr they were hardly warm...... As a side note I am glad I checked them before I went as the manufacturer had done them up so tight I had to hammer the nut off........ That's one hell of a lot of preload  :o
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« Reply #26 on: August 10, 2013, 12:03:07 PM »
Just did mine with a mate yesterday. Used Fuchs high temp wheel bearing .

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Re: Which Brand of Bearing Grease Do You Use ?
« Reply #27 on: August 10, 2013, 01:19:33 PM »
Quote from: JCAT on August 10, 2013, 12:03:07 PM
Just did mine with a mate yesterday. Used Fuchs high temp wheel bearing .

This also is a fine, Austalian Made Grease ! Very, very similar to HTB
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Re: Which Brand of Bearing Grease Do You Use ?
« Reply #28 on: August 10, 2013, 01:21:51 PM »
Quote from: GeoffA on August 10, 2013, 11:37:36 AM
Not for unbraked applications, though........

Why ?
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Re: Which Brand of Bearing Grease Do You Use ?
« Reply #29 on: August 10, 2013, 04:12:10 PM »
Quote from: Toddy_1 on August 10, 2013, 01:21:51 PM
Why ?

It's too stiff without the heat from the brakes.
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« Reply #30 on: August 10, 2013, 08:14:52 PM »
Another for the Nulon grease. IMHO it's the best in the market.
And it's made in Aus by an Australian owned company.


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Re: Which Brand of Bearing Grease Do You Use ?
« Reply #31 on: August 10, 2013, 09:07:49 PM »
whatever the guys who do the service use.  :D

I am not confident enough to do my own, especially hearing the stories here about wheels overtaking vehicles etc...

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Re: Which Brand of Bearing Grease Do You Use ?
« Reply #32 on: August 11, 2013, 02:24:10 PM »
Quote from: GeoffA on August 10, 2013, 04:12:10 PM
It's too stiff without the heat from the brakes.

Hi Geoff,

The heat generated from the bearing themselves is sufficent enough to allow the grease to do its' job under normal operating temperatures, the advantage HTB has over its' competitors is that it can handle much higher temps (where brakes come into play).

Cheers, Scott

PS. I don't work for BP/Castrol
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Re: Which Brand of Bearing Grease Do You Use ?
« Reply #33 on: August 11, 2013, 02:25:43 PM »
Quote from: mcm72 on August 10, 2013, 08:14:52 PM
Another for the Nulon grease. IMHO it's the best in the market.
And it's made in Aus by an Australian owned company.


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It is very good and is certainly made in Australia by a wholly Australian owned company !

Cheers, Scott

PS. I don't work for Nulon
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Re: Which Brand of Bearing Grease Do You Use ?
« Reply #34 on: August 28, 2013, 08:21:47 PM »
Hi all
Just removed one of the disc hubs from the Cub so i can take the bearings and seal to work and get some new ones.
The thing i found was the outer bearing and grease looked like it was brand new but the inner bearing the grease was all black.
Has anybody got any idea why.
Thanks
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« Reply #35 on: August 28, 2013, 08:24:31 PM »
caltex.. cos thats all I can get in a big tub locally.. cost is around $30




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Re: Which Brand of Bearing Grease Do You Use ?
« Reply #36 on: August 28, 2013, 08:31:45 PM »
Stuff that works  8)                            >:D                                          :cheers:
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Re: Which Brand of Bearing Grease Do You Use ?
« Reply #37 on: August 29, 2013, 07:33:59 AM »
Here's a copy of a write up I posted in an old thread.  Still holds true!

I've been using Moreys since about 1985 when I saw it used on the thread of a drill bit on an oil rig. (Richter rig #5 to be exact) where it connected onto the drill string, then drilled thru the artesian basin, into an oil reservoir, pulled the string and the grease was still there.
My old 60 series did 15 years between repacking the wheel bearings, and when I did repack them about 2 years ago, the same bearings went back in.  With Super Red grease of course.
A mate is trialling Moreys Bigfoot at the moment, it is probably going to be ok too, but too early to tell yet.  He's only done about 150,000 km including 4 or 5 trips up the Cape (but only from Mareeba) so far.

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Re: Which Brand of Bearing Grease Do You Use ?
« Reply #38 on: August 29, 2013, 04:39:50 PM »
Valvolene Valplex ep. Been using it for over 20 yrs, never let me down. But any quality brand name as most mentioned previously are probably every bit as good.

Whats probably more important than the grease though is cleanliness when assembling and packing the bearings properly. Too many people put way too much grease in the hubs.


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Re: Which Brand of Bearing Grease Do You Use ?
« Reply #39 on: October 10, 2014, 11:38:37 AM »
Had a pretty good run with Castrol so sticking with HTB2. The 80's brakes get pretty hot so the high temp stuff does its job well  :cheers:
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Re: Which Brand of Bearing Grease Do You Use ?
« Reply #40 on: October 11, 2014, 08:57:02 PM »
Nulon Extreme for me, never had an issue with it. pain in @rse to clean up though.
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Re: Which Brand of Bearing Grease Do You Use ?
« Reply #41 on: October 11, 2014, 10:52:17 PM »
Have always used Castrol HTB Grease, but after having read some stuff on here, decided to try the Castrol LMM, which replaces the LMX. It is a blue grease. Time will tell how this goes.
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Re: Which Brand of Bearing Grease Do You Use ?
« Reply #42 on: October 12, 2014, 10:02:02 AM »
Quote from: cassgazz on October 11, 2014, 10:52:17 PM
Have always used Castrol HTB Grease, but after having read some stuff on here, decided to try the Castrol LMM, which replaces the LMX. It is a blue grease. Time will tell how this goes.

Which is now called PHD, still the same grease though, trust me
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Re: Which Brand of Bearing Grease Do You Use ?
« Reply #43 on: October 12, 2014, 11:22:58 AM »
I've had a good run out of Mobil HP.
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Re: Which Brand of Bearing Grease Do You Use ?
« Reply #44 on: October 13, 2014, 05:53:48 PM »
Castrol HTB (trailer has brakes) and really good marine bearing seals
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Re: Which Brand of Bearing Grease Do You Use ?
« Reply #45 on: October 14, 2014, 12:31:33 PM »
Penrite High Temp Wheel Bearing Grease. I don't use cheap stuff, sooner or later it will come back to bite - usually when you don't want it to!!!
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