Can the hubs be repacked with grease and if so how is it done?
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Posted by J Sparacino on Aug 31, 2016
you double posted. why do that????
no, the hubs are integrated bearing hubs.
here read the parts pages,
see any tapered bearings there,
if not sold , pray tell , how can you pack the bearing not in hand.
not only that, there are like 1000000 books on how to pack front bearing, if they were removable and are not.
why not look first then post.? at car and the book, !
or read the FREE FSM, it says what ?, unbolt them
and replace the integrated hub assembly.
that is a fact. 300 times ive posted the free book, now.
and is still there, and the words still real ,still jeep words and all accurate. sigh.
below is rockautos list of after market hub assemblies.
do not get confused at those needle bearings, those are actually front axle shaft bearings, not hub wheel bearings. fact.
wheel bearing are ball or tapered rollers, to handle lateral huge loading.
http://www.rockauto.com/en/catalog/jeep,1998,cherokee,4.0l+l6,1315943,brake/wheel+hub,wheel+bearing+&+hub+assembly,1636?a=Referer+duckduckgo.com+URL+%2F
chapter 3, there is no page, showing how to rebuild this part, zero. they are rebuilt in factories that do that, takes special tools and press.
they sell rebuilts too, and if real brave some from china.(noname knockoffs)
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Tapered roller bearings --get a bearing packer from a spare parts shop -quick , clean and packs the bearings with the right amount of grease
other than that ( means getting your hands dirty), place a large dob of grease in the palm of your hand with the open side of the bearing use the cage to scrape the grease off the palm and through the rollers
repeat until the grease is seen to be coming out past the rollers at the closed end of the cage
smear grease around the outside around the rollers
That is a properly packed roller bearing
filling the hub with grease is a waste and can cause bearing failure as the grease from the bearing has no where to go so it over heats and causes bearing failure
use high temperature, water resistant wheel bearing grease as normal chassis grease will dry out
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