oil/ grease for wheel bearing?

Hello all.

My new front wheel bearing (and tool) are in the post from big jim shop.

Believe I can fit it ok, but any advice appreciated.

Also bearing oil/grease has been mentioned somewhere. What should I use? I have some waterproof grease for the kingpins, will that do?

Will I get the circular nut off with a breaker bar? and as my torque wrench only goes up to 150nm, do I torque it to that then a bit more or try to borrow a BIG torque wrench.

Thanks in anticipation!

troggy wrote:
Also bearing oil/grease has been mentioned somewhere. What should I use? I have some waterproof grease for the kingpins, will that do?

The bearing should be supplied greased. If it needs extra, the waterproof bearing grease is fine. Don't forget to grease inside the oilseal and to smear the stub axle. (I use ordinary lithium grease as it is cheaper tbh, and keep the waterproof for the kingpins, but I drive round puddles )
Don't forget to blow through both vacuum spigots before you replace the black freewheel hubcaps, the new grease usually blocks at least one of the vacuum holes.

troggy wrote:
Will I get the circular nut off with a breaker bar? and as my torque wrench only goes up to 150nm, do I torque it to that then a bit more or try to borrow a BIG torque wrench.

Make sure that you carefully open the stake out from the groove so the nut can turn, Don't overdo it as it will be going back in the same place, and a new "nut" is £1,000,000 :ohmy: . If there is nothing left to ding in, you can carefully rub the back of the "nut" on a flat sheet of emery to thin the nut so it turns a bit. (you could thin the washer, but the nut is easier, and in the worst case you needed a new nut anyway, so nothing to lose)

Probably needs a bit of scaffold pole on the breaker bar to shift it

The correct torque is 160 lbft, so 150 and a bit is fine, but likely at 150 the staked part isn't quite lined up, so you tweak it the extra degree or so with the breaker bar.

Many thanks!

My wrench max is 150 nM, or 110 ft/lb so it will be too low to guess.

I'll blag one from my local garage (as usual).

After all, we don't want the wheel to come off.

Only hope my sloppy bearing hasn't damaged the half shaft seal, but I guess oil would be ****ing out.

It's my daughter's (greenpig) jim, so can't take any chances.

Again, many thanks, and if anyone local to Whitby needs the tool for theirs, I'll have one to lend soon!

You will need a good press to push the old bearing out and the new one in, I'd take the hub round your friendly garage, they can do it in 5 minutes.

Update.

Bearing and tool arrived this morning (tuesday).

Top marks to big jim shop!

Got the round nut off using the tool, a drive bit from a broken torque wrench, gripped with a massive pair of stillsons with extra leverage of scaffy bar. Came off relatively easily.

Pushed the bearing out in my big engineers vice using old bearings and odds and ends and use of scaffy bar on vice lever.

Bottled out at putting bearing in so nipped round to lacal garage who let me use his press. Tried to give him a tenner but he wouldn't have it (little does he know that I need his big torque wrench next!)

Nice job sounds like you have a helpful garage very local? A rare thing these days