New member with a question for all

Just for general knowledge, I'd be curious to see what seals are in his hubs. If the seal tolerances allowed the use of hub oil, great. If the seals are the stockers that would have come with the car, not so great. Your comment, Mark, was that " " and the fact is, there are. I wouldn't suggest that he run hub oil in this application, I'd use long strand grease, the same stuff that has been used for umpty-leven years. The OP asked a serious question, and I believe that the majority of the answers here have pointed him toward using what was used originally on his bearings from the factory.

 

...actually....grease is oil bound up in a soap...generally lithium but also polyurea in high speed applications..
as the soap heats up, it 'bleeds' oil that does the lubrication and the soap is the binder that keeps the grease in place...
as for the OP question...I believe that we are in agreement, for this application, he needs grease instead of oil...

 

No disrespect was intended.

I was simply explaining where it come from, I never said I have ever seen it on a street car or by any means recommend doing on the street, I am not a fan of it on race cars you shouldn’t have to change wheel bearing multiple times a season particularly in a cl*** were you are only running for a thropy.

Not everyone on the HAMB has the same backgrounds and there are many things that are unknown in the hot rod world that are common place in other parts of the automotive lifestyle and vice versa.

Much like the time we had two Ford Flathead powered cars come vintage racing with us and the modern weekly racers hadn’t ever seen an engine with eight cylinders but only six exhaust ports.

 

Just a thought, is the "heavy weight oil" you refer to possibly something similar to the viscosity of corn head grease?