RE: [T3]Greasing rear wheels, installed greasers

["Erkson, Toby" <toby.erkson@intel.com>]

<x-charset iso-8859-1>Take some pictures, write up what you did and why, then send it to me.  I'll
put it on my web site...maybe we can have a new section -- "Off-roading your
T3 with Leon" 8-D

   Toby Erkson
   air_cooled_nut@pobox.com
   '72 VW Squareback 1.6L bored and stroked to 2.0L, Berg five-speed
   '95 VW Jetta III GL 2.0L, P-Chip, Jamex sport suspension, 2.25"
MagnaFlow exhaust
   Portland, Oregon, http://www.icbm.org/

>-----Original Message-----
>...
>I decided to install greasers in the assembly
>by drilling, tapping and placing the greaser
>nipples. Before I installed the bearings back, 
>I worked the grease into the needles and ball
>bearings. After I put everything together I pumped 
>grease into the assembly with a grease gun until
>it got a little hard to pump, this way, positive
>pressure is inside the housing, pushing, so the 
>moisture will not enter if the wheels happen to 
>be under water. Funny, no grease oozed out at
>all out of the seals, good seals.
>
>I used high pressure - high temp lithium based
>boat trailer grease. 
>
>I did this on some cars that did not have greasers and
>that was the last time I ever changed bearings.
...

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