| [GMCnet] Rear Brake Bearings [message #119490] |
Mon, 21 March 2011 20:01  |
paul h cashman
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Registered: May 2005
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Hi Jeremy,
Some of you guy's hijack a thread and it's hard to follow ,most netters just
delete a thread that doesn't apply to them.
I replaced my rear wheel bearings and races,about five years ago the next
year I put about 4,000 miles on my Coach.
I'm fanatic about my Drum Brakes ,they never worked good..so each season I
would remove the Brake Drums and the Wheel Cylinders for leakage ,after
4,000 Miles the grease ,Mobile 1 was black, instead of red ,in the front
rear ,the Rollers were pitted ?it was just the outside Bearing ,the inside
was good..
I replaced both., all the others were OK.
If I had used the black grease I wouldn't have known I had a problem.
When I bought my coach everyone was recommending Mobile 1 even Archie..
Look it just takes about 6 hours to check the grease plus the Brake Cylinder
in all four Wheels, that's if ,you have about 5 Beers.
Time well spent each year.
Sometimes you cant trust ,a paid Mechanic ,sometimes ,you cant trust
,yourself.
Just my 2 Cents
Paul Cashman
Riverdale Ga
Coach is at Southland (Zeb Frady's shop). Was odd because I didn't have any
warning. No whining, jolting, screeching, nothing until it just let go with
a big jolt and some black smoke. Almost tore the wheel off the coach. Was
very fortunate that I didn't cause an accident since people in Atlanta drive
like donkeys. I'm belching smoke in the second lane from the right shoulder
and had to go a couple hundred yards while some idiot happily sat in my
blind spot instead of moving out of the way. Was waiting to see the wheel go
rolling past
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Paul H Cashman
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1978 Transmode
1975 Corvette
1978 Beetle Convertible
1989 Harley Davidson Sportster
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| Re: [GMCnet] Rear Brake Bearings [message #119497 is a reply to message #119490] |
Mon, 21 March 2011 20:46  |
JohnL455
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Registered: October 2006
Location: Woodstock, IL
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Yes is doesn't seem that Mobil 1 grease is "heavy" enough for wheel bearings. JMHO. That coupled with the phase separation problem it likes to have makes me never use it in wheel bearings. I used to like to grease Front end parts with it as you can see when clean red grease starts to come out, but I switched to Synpower as well for all my vehicles as it just seems to hold together and have more "body". That and the way it stains your hands and clothes means it must be better!
John Lebetski
Woodstock, IL
77 Eleganza II
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