Source For Fiber Wheel Bearing Grease

[Brooks G.]

Guys, I have always used fiber wheel bearing grease on cars with drum brakes and ones with ball bearing type bearings. I am ready to pack the wheel bearings on my '56 and for the life if me I can't find the grease I thought I had. Does anyone know of a source for this type of lubricant? Thanks in advance! Brooks Glover (2141)

[Joe L.]

Re: Source For Fiber Wheel Bearing Grease

Guys, I have always used fiber wheel bearing grease on cars with drum brakes and ones with ball bearing type bearings. I am ready to pack the wheel bearings on my '56 and for the life if me I can't find the grease I thought I had. Does anyone know of a source for this type of lubricant? Thanks in advance! Brooks Glover (2141)

Brooks------


I think that long fiber greases are, basically, obsolete, at least for automotive applications. I don't know of a source for them, anyway.

GM has specifically not recommended the use of long fiber greases for as long as I can remember. I think you'd be better off using a modern grease. GM #12377985 is one that I would recommend, even for the ball bearing application.

[Kenny C.]

Re: Source For Fiber Wheel Bearing Grease

Brooks
I am not sure why you wouldn't want to use a modern lubricant but FYI Sta Lube make a boat axle grease that is fiber based. And it come in a lovely shade of blue.
Regards
Kenny

[Brooks G.]

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Kenny and Joe, thanks for your response to my post on fiber wheel bearing grease. I will probably try one of your suggestions as there does not seem to be a source that I can find for this particular grease. In the research I did, there appears to be only 2 or maybe 3 places in the US that still possibly make petroleum products such as grease and I have not comfirmed this as of yet. This is definitely a far cry from the way it used to be. It seems that today that most greases are made in India, China, or Malaysia. Whatever happened to "made in the USA". Thanks again! Brooks Glover (2141)

[Tom S.]

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Liberals that do not want any manufacturing of any kind in our country.To and include refinery's. There hasn't been one of those built in our country in many years.That is what has happened to manufacturing. Altough I will say al[green] gore still owns a large percentage of Occidental Petroleum. The green part just refers to the rest of us.

[Jim T.]

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Liberals that do not want any manufacturing of any kind in our country.To and include refinery's. There hasn't been one of those built in our country in many years.That is what has happened to manufacturing. Altough I will say al[green] gore still owns a large percentage of Occidental Petroleum. The green part just refers to the rest of us.

Tom within the last couple of years I read or heard on the radio about a new refinery being built in one of the Dakota states. Lots of oil found as well which makes sense to what my dad said, don't ever sell the mineral rights.

[Dick W.]

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To and include refinery's. There hasn't been one of those built in our country in many years.

26+ years to be exact.

I do understand there are permits being/have been issued for a new refinery in New Mexico. And we wonder why we have to import so much refined petroleum product.

[Terry M.]

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Liberals that do not want any manufacturing of any kind in our country.To and include refinery's. There hasn't been one of those built in our country in many years.That is what has happened to manufacturing. Altough I will say al[green] gore still owns a large percentage of Occidental Petroleum. The green part just refers to the rest of us.

New refineries or not, no manufacturer is going to make a product for which there is little or no market. Manufacturers are all about profitability, and THAT is all that matters to them. That is the American way, and there is nothing wrong with that -- at least until we can't get a fibre wheel bearing grease. Manufacturing is also driven by the bottom line in a lot of other places besides America.