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Subject:Re: Inject grease into rear wheel bearings w/o disassembly?
From:Jim Felder
Date:Mon, 20 Jul 2009 19:12:26 -0500

Yes, your FLAPS will have them with a zerk-type fitting on the end to
snap into your grease gun loaded with Amzoil purple. The needle slips
nicely through the rubber. Twelve pumps, no muss no fuss.

Jim

On Mon, Jul 20, 2009 at 7:04 PM, Poppie
Jagersand<poppie.jagersand@yahoo.ca> wrote:
> While under the Vanagon to pull the starter I noticed the rubber boot on the passenger side CV joint is torn. No clunks from the CV's yet, so I was planning just to order four Febi boot and grease kits from busdepot and repack CV's.
>
> I was thinking that a rear wheel repacking might also be good, but I'm too busy/(lazy) this summer to also disassemble rear stub axles. (There is no sound or sign of the bearings being bad)
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> Is there some other way to get grease on into the rear wheel bearings? With an injection needle?
>
> Martin
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