Wheel Bearing Grease

[bennettommyd]

OK, went through and read the other posts about greasing the bearings, ez lube vs hand pack, no problem as everyone has a different opinion. I have a question about the kind of wheel bearing grease. I used Mercury Quicksilver 2-4-C grease with Teflon for my old boat trailer wheels, new boat different wheels. I have several tubes of this grease left.

Is it OK to use for the Monty wheels?

[SteveC7010]

Both the Dexter and the Al-Ko manuals have charts of acceptable greases for use in their axles. Both manuals are downloadable from their websites.

[Maxzd]

Originally Posted by bennettommyd

OK, went through and read the other posts about greasing the bearings, ez lube vs hand pack, no problem as everyone has a different opinion. I have a question about the kind of wheel bearing grease. I used Mercury Quicksilver 2-4-C grease with Teflon for my old boat trailer wheels, new boat different wheels. I have several tubes of this grease left.

Is it OK to use for the Monty wheels?

I have dexter E-Z Lube Bearings on my cougar 325srx. Did two of the four wheels yesterday. I removed the wheels completely to get proper access to inspect and grease.

First time I have used this system. The video on dexters website is to pump grease thru the system until you see the new grease replace the old.

http://m.youtube.com/watch?feature=plcp&v=XT0RKDGgDm8

The easiest way seems to be changing the colour of the grease. I bought Mystik JT-6 which is red and replaced the existing black grease in the system. It takes a ton of grease to do this process so be prepared to have 3-4 tubes ready.

Here is the chart for recommended grease all lithium based. They warn against mixing with other non-lithium based grease it may cause failure so double check what you are using.

[hankpage]

Maxzd, Great post ..... thank you, Hank

[fla-gypsy]

Al-Ko also recommends the use of a Lithium Complex NLGI-No. 2 grease for their wheel bearings.