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Offline TER

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Front Bearing oil or grease
« on: January 11, 2015, 09:13:07 am »
We are new to the sport. We just got our first legends car. We came from Karting and always used oil and for the bearings. What does everyoneveryone else do ? Oil or grease. Any information is greatly apreciated




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Re: Front Bearing oil or grease
« Reply #1 on: January 11, 2015, 10:43:06 am »
I use grease. these are not sealed bearing assemblies, and aftermarket oil bath type systems are not legal.
I use and recommend Kluber grease, but it is NOT cheap. Obviously there are hundreds of other greases to choose from out there.

Here is a link if you're interested in Kluber: http://www.vmsmotorsports.com/apps/webstore/products/show/4645078

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Re: Front Bearing oil or grease
« Reply #2 on: January 11, 2015, 11:52:58 am »
Thank you

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Re: Front Bearing oil or grease
« Reply #3 on: January 11, 2015, 06:36:07 pm »
I use Valvoline synthetic bearing grease.
Reasonably priced and available at most auto parts stores.

Steve
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Re: Front Bearing oil or grease
« Reply #4 on: January 11, 2015, 08:58:40 pm »
Amsoil has a nice bearing grease also.

Robert


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Re: Front Bearing oil or grease
« Reply #5 on: January 11, 2015, 09:12:58 pm »
 Whatever ya go with, make sure it is a high temp grease for disc brakes. I realize there are a ton of newbs out there that weren't around when regular wheel bearing grease was used back in the day before disc brakes existed.. if ya dig hard enough through the internet you might find a nifty front wheel bearing trick. I might have missed deleting that post along the way...

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Offline Mr Faster

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Re: Front Bearing oil or grease
« Reply #6 on: October 25, 2019, 10:23:27 am »
We use polished bearings from New England Gear Polishing. And Daylube grease.
Don't pack the bearings, just use injector to lube in between the rollers.

I've also used stock bearings and Microlon wheel bearing grease. But NEGP bearings work better.

If your interested www.negearpolishing.com 

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Re: Front Bearing oil or grease
« Reply #7 on: April 10, 2021, 09:55:25 pm »
Bought new England bears , a first not happy couldn't get bearing spacer correct( pdr spacer a must), then realized we had shiped a few steps, check spindle for damage, turns out bolt to spindle was not tight, c,heck all components, when ever front end lifted shake tire right to left, and up and down


 

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