[AT] Greasing trailer wheel bearings

[Mark Greer]

The Massey grease you have should be fine as long as it is an NLGI#2
consistency. Lithium is an excellent bearing grease.
Mark Greer

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Al Jones" <aljones at ncfreedom.net>
To: "'Antique tractor email discussion group'"
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Sent: Tuesday, September 11, 2007 9:35 PM
Subject: [AT] Greasing trailer wheel bearings


> All,
>
> I need to pull my tractor hauling trailer on about a 5 hr (each way)
> trip Saturday.  Running empty going and hauling about 1500 lbs coming
> back.  It has the factory "bearing buddy" type center caps on it so you
> can grease the wheel bearings with the grease gun.  I think they're
> Dexter axles, anyway the bearing buddy's are factory.  What kind of
> grease should I use? We use a multipurpose (Massey-Ferguson) lithium
> grease in the grease gun on the farm but I think it's a little bit
> "lighter weight" than regular wheel bearing grease. I wanted to make
> sure before I started pumping a bunch in there. (I know not to over-do
> it and run the risk of pushing grease out the inner bearing and all over
> the brakes.)
>
> Thanks!
> Al