Any? grease is better than no grease at all?

[95yj]

Well, just got everything bolted back on the boat after replacing the gimbal bearing and impeller. Greased up the gimbal bearing and when I pulled the gun away. . . blue grease? Some idiot, don't know who that would be since I'm the only one here, marked the grease guns wrong. So now my gimbal bearing is shot full of Quicksilver engine coupler spline grease and I have an unused tube of Quicksilver u-joint/gimbal bearing grease in a different gun.

The way I look at it my choices are:

1. Yank the bearing out, clean the grease out and reinstall. Since pulling the bearing is hell on the bearing, might as well just do #2 below.

2. Leave it alone and when it starts to make noise, replace it.

3. Pump a ton of gimbal bearing grease in to replace the spline grease. That way I'll have lots of spline grease on the spline, wrong side of the bearing/grease seal of course, and the bearing will be packed full with bearing grease and some spline grease.

4. Buy a new bearing, wait forever for it to arrive and redo the entire job.

How good is the spline grease at lubing bearings?

Any ideas anyone? Smart***** responses are always welcome.

 

[Don S]

Re: Any? grease is better than no grease at all?

The spline grease is thick, sticky, and stringy and may prevent the bearing from actually rolling, it will just slide along and wear out quickly.
Removing the bearing, as you said will destroy it.
I would pump the proper grease into it and push as much of the old grease out as possible and go for it. The worst that could happen is only as bad as the other options.

Fire the idiot that marked the grease guns wrong

 

[95yj]

Re: Any? grease is better than no grease at all?

Thanks Don. I figured that was the way to go. I'll probably get a new bearing on its way down here and just replace it on a windy day since it'll only take a couple hours now that everything's been pulled apart once.

Fire the idiot that marked the grease guns wrong

Can't find him. Been looking all over for the guy but he must be hiding. (Refuse to walk past a mirror.)

 

[Bondo]

Re: Any? grease is better than no grease at all?

Ayuh,.......

I'd give it about 30 or so pumps of the Right Grease,+ not Look Back........

Then throw the New Replacement bearing on the shelf for a few years,.....
I don't think you're going to Need it,.... Not for Awhile anyways.....

 

[MikDee]

Re: Any? grease is better than no grease at all?

I'm with Bond-o on this one ^^^

 

[Scaaty]

Re: Any? grease is better than no grease at all?

I'm with Bondo. You will never need to replace something you have a spare of ("Murphy" knows this.) ready to go. It just the stuff that ya need now, that breaks 10 minutes to closing on the parts store, and you are 11 minutes away.

 

[95yj]

Re: Any? grease is better than no grease at all?

Figured with that thread title, Bondo would reply to my post.

I'm with Bondo. You will never need to replace something you have a spare of ("Murphy" knows this.) ready to go. It just the stuff that ya need now, that breaks 10 minutes to closing on the parts store, and you are 11 minutes away.

Yup, like I said, I'll get another and change it in my spare time if and when I feel like it. Wouldn't want to be making the two hour run to Punta Fijo and have it decide I was far enough away from a shoreline though.

And there's no such thing as a parts/marine/hardware store anywhere near here that actually has anything you need. Closest of any of these is a 2 1/2 hour plane ride to Miami.

 

[Scaaty]

Re: Any? grease is better than no grease at all?

Figured with that thread title, Bondo would reply to my post.




Yup, like I said, I'll get another and change it in my spare time if and when I feel like it. Wouldn't want to be making the two hour run to Punta Fijo and have it decide I was far enough away from a shoreline though.

And there's no such thing as a parts/marine/hardware store anywhere near here that actually has anything you need. Closest of any of these is a 2 1/2 hour plane ride to Miami.

It was kinda meant as a joke...

 

[95yj]

Re: Any? grease is better than no grease at all?

It was kinda meant as a joke...

I know that Can't count the number of times that's happened when I used to live in the states. I don't have that problem anymore 'cause you cannot buy anything here.

You should come down here and try to buy something. We even have a pair of NAPA stores that have a pretty big parts warehouse. I just for the life of me cannot figure out what they have in stock. I have never walked in there and bought a part that I was looking for. This even includes a stock NAPA oil filter for an SBC.