Martin,

The most important part of repacking wheel bearings is not replacing the
grease. The most important part is inspecting the bearings & races for wear
& damage and re-adjusting your wheel bearing pre-load. Just adding grease to
a wheel bearing accomplishes none of this.

Thanks,
Tom Hargrave
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-----Original Message-----
From: Vanagon Mailing List [mailto:vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM] On Behalf Of
Poppie Jagersand
Sent: Monday, July 20, 2009 7:05 PM
To: vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM
Subject: Inject grease into rear wheel bearings w/o disassembly?

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)

Is there some other way to get grease on into the rear wheel bearings? With
an injection needle?

Martin

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