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Brilliant! I’ve been packing by (messy) hand for years. That looks so easy.
By the way, what’s that grease he’s using?
18th Jul 2018 6:45 am
PCT3
Member Since: 13 May 2017
Location: Kent
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Used to use a bearing greaser back in the seventies but it wasn’t open like that one, same principle though. An inclosed one keeps the excess grease clean between uses as there’s a lot of waste otherwiseDiscovery 3 HSE 07
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18th Jul 2018 6:46 am
lynalldiscovery
Member Since: 22 Dec 2009
Location: Maidstone
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Gareth wrote:
Brilliant! I’ve been packing by (messy) hand for years. That looks so easy.
By the way, what’s that grease he’s using?
He is using BPW trailer wheel bearing grease, real funny gear, last forever but when you remove the bearings they are always dry! but weirdly never any wear like trailer bearings of old.
BPW warranty their trailer hub bearings for 500k and they last that distance with no worries, most will do double that with a regrease at 500k.
Tools like that are great, but its another dirty piece of kit you have to store, when a pair of vinyl gloves will do the same job with no clean up needed afterwards.
Its for the older Landys the D3 and on use sealed bearings now so LR can rip you off.
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18th Jul 2018 9:24 am
gstuart
Member Since: 21 Oct 2016
Location: kent
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That’s unusual for Land Rover to rip people off, never
Also reminds me of an old grease trick to push old bearings out , can’t remember how it was done now
Ref the sealed bearings , seen some where they take the covers off to grease them
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18th Jul 2018 5:09 pm
gstuart
Member Since: 21 Oct 2016
Location: kent
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lynalldiscovery wrote:
Gareth wrote:
Brilliant! I’ve been packing by (messy) hand for years. That looks so easy.
By the way, what’s that grease he’s using?
He is using BPW trailer wheel bearing grease, real funny gear, last forever but when you remove the bearings they are always dry! but weirdly never any wear like trailer bearings of old.
BPW warranty their trailer hub bearings for 500k and they last that distance with no worries, most will do double that with a regrease at 500k.
Tools like that are great, but its another dirty piece of kit you have to store, when a pair of vinyl gloves will do the same job with no clean up needed afterwards.
if that were about 4" long it would be an ideal solution to lowering spare with a full boot !
18th Jul 2018 7:29 pm
Discomadness
Member Since: 19 Jan 2015
Location: Caerphilly
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There was a “gadget” available for that a while back. Think it was called the boot buddy or something ? Or maybe I just made that up... it was for 7 seaters and full boots.Jarrod
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I have two of them, a 3/8 drive and a 1/4 inch one, I think I have used one of them once, no good on FTB but ok on bolts already loosened.
Flack
18th Jul 2018 8:18 pm
gstuart
Member Since: 21 Oct 2016
Location: kent
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Discomadness wrote:
There was a “gadget” available for that a while back. Think it was called the boot buddy or something ? Or maybe I just made that up... it was for 7 seaters and full boots.
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