Bearing grease?????

Last summer I rebuilt the deck on my new "used" mower. There was a little rumble down there so I knew the bottom bearings were going out. Pulled the mandrels apart Went to NAPA and bought their "GENERATOR" bearings. These are near the top of the line type?? Also they were around $23.oo each!!! What I do is make everything greaseable and install a zirk fitting in the mandrel towers.. You need to wound or remove the inner seal so the grease can get in. Takes a lot of pumping the first time but after that it only takes a little bit. Now on ALL of my equipment I grease EVERYTHING with one of those little needle fittings that go in the end of your grease gun. Actual hypo needle in a zirk fitting.. You really want to grease up all of the idlers and such. Works wonders to keep stuff from blowing up. Now when you pop the inner grease seal THIS is what you find. I guess that grease is too expensive? They can sell you another next year! Jeffcat
P.S. you get more "SNOT" out of a little kids nose than the grease in this one inch bearing! No there was NOOO grease on the other side! Both bearings were the same. One made in Brazil and the other was I think Poland. To say the least I really greased them up!

I have been doing much the same for many years with good results.

Had to replace one of them good chinese bearings in a mower idler pulley yesterday. Put it in last summer.

Many years ago I got tired of replacing sealed bearings on my combine one fall, I was replacing one and dropped it and the side shield fell off. I picked it up and looked at it and I swear it looked like it had a dab of vasoline in it. Bull crap, Got my grease gun with my good red grease and filled it up popped the side shield back on and installed it. After that I started going around to every bearing I could get to and drilled a 1/16" hole in the side shield and used a grease needle (for old chevy 4x4) and pump them full of grease, Clean the excess off and put a dab of permatex (orange) the seal it up. Before I put a bearing on anything I do this to them and I don't replace many bearings anymore. This really works. Bandit

Yup that is why I posted it. Greased a set today on the rollers for a big mower deck. Grease is cheep enough....isn't it??

The reason that they are only half full is that in a high speed application too much grease will cause them to fail. The way it was explained to us at a bearing seminar is go to the beach and run along in ankle deep water, that goes quite well. Then go out and try to run in waist deep water! Too much grease caused the balls or rollers to slide instead of roll on the unloaded side of the bearing, causing heat.

You should be using the higher grade (there are three) of Relative Bearing Grease. It is specially made for those applications.......

Hey ya ol' swab jockey, haven't heard of that stuff for a long, long time.

must be a navy thing,

"go grease the relative bearing"

The joke is . . .
Relative bearing is a nautical term - the position of a vessel, navigational aid or such in relation to your vessel. So the victim should get an ear full from the chief engineer when they try to find out where on the ship they should applied the grease they are carrying.

Yes I know ...and it is like $30.oo BUCKS a tube. The gear and bearing store down the road has it. I use the red stuff.