Right, it is for the open wheel bearings on boat trailers. They expect
you to regrease very often with those to drive out the water. It is not
the kind of grease you leave on for 40,000 miles on a fwd car.
Jon
Nolan wrote:
>
> Odd. I use the blue marine grease also. One of its recommended
> applications is wheel bearings (says so right on the label). And in my
> years of use in this and other applications I've never had a failure or
> problem.
>
> ----- Original Message ----- From: "Rush" <jdrush@enter.net>
> Subject: Re: How the h*ll...now Grease?
>
>
>> Perhaps you get a different kind than me, but the blue, marine grease
>> I'm familiar with is not intended to be a general purpose grease. It
>> is intended for open, low pressure applications where washout is the
>> major problem. Any surface where the Hertz stress is high, such as
>> roller-element bearings, will punch right through the marine grease
>> film and wear out the surface. Ask me how I know. :( The heaviest
>> usage I put marine grease through is in plain bushings where the
>> working contact surface is very large.
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