Re: [Amc-list] axle pulling time ...was Droning American

[Tom Jennings <tomj@xxxxxxx>]

On Sun, 11 Mar 2007, Wrambler242@xxxxxxxxxxx wrote:

> I want to just add that you must make sure to really pack the bearings on these as they are external to the rear axle. No gear lube reaches them. I would splurge for the highest grade synthetic or crude based bearing grease I could find. No one ever pulls these apart to repack them. All right, someone will now say they actually do this!

A-men! I pack the crap out of them. Who wants to pull axles! It's
a PITA!

You know, most AMC-15s anyways have these suspicious looking
holes in the axle tubes right in the bearing area...  I always
thought I should explore putting a vent in the top and a Zerk
in the bottom.

The thing is though, they do seem to just last forever... I
put new bearings in my Classic in 1990 or so. The pinion shaft
sheared in 1996 (old, bad flawed part), the shop kept those
bearings and repacked them. They now have 150,000 - 200,000
miles on them.

> I never did understand why someone would put a bearing rihgt beside a source of rotating moving 90 weight, then isolate the same bearing from that lube!
>

Yeah, what's with that? It seems very 1925.
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