How to pack a wheel bearing.
The take away message here is you can’t just smear grease on a bearing. You have to force grease between the rollers. They make a tool so you can use a grease gun, but doing it by hand is much more fun (and satisfying). First, get a big gob of bearing grease on the palm of one hand.
Then, in little bites, scrape the grease off your palm with the outer edge of the bearing’s roller cage. Here I’m doing the front wheel bearings for the dana 44 I’m putting in the suburban.
You know you’ve got it when you can see grease come out the top of the bearing like above. Then rotate the bearing till you get the whole thing.
