2000 Land Cruiser Preload Adjustment | Grease Spindle Procedure (1 Viewer)

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I've edited this thread from its original version to make it more useful to all, even though it's still redundant. Thanks.

I need some ideas of what great to use for the front wheel bearings and spindle for my 2000 Land Cruiser. Will any bearing grease do the job? Pics of your chosen product appreciated, if you are feeling ambitious. 😄. How about for the rear?
 
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A lot of the questions you're asking lately have been covered in prior threads. I'd suggest browsing through the FAQ. For your spindle grease, take a look for a thread by 2001LC on the front hub rebuild, good info there.
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I need some ideas of what great to use for the front wheel bearings and spindle for my 2000 Land Cruiser. Will any bearing grease do the job? Pics of your chosen product appreciated, if you are feeling ambitious. 😄. How about for the rear?
I just did this on my '90 Runner and used the Lucas Red and Tacky. Any old grease would probably work OK, but it's not much more cost to go with a better rated product.
 
What about this grease? Can I mix this with grease of another color? I'm novice in the grease world. Thank you for understanding

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I ended up going with this.

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I ended up buying a tool from SLEE that threads onto my axle, allowing me to pump grease with my grease gun until I see it flowing out the back of spindle. However, I'm feeling like I'm pumping a lot of grease until I actually see it coming out the back, and am worried I might be causing damage in the long run by having too much grease pumped in. I'm also conflicted as to how often I should be doing this. I don't do water crossings or off road at all, so I'm pretty much highway. I've done it once now after about 12k miles of driving, and just after I'd replaced both my wheel bearings and all the grease a while ago. Next 12k miles is pretty much here now, and I feel like I just did this. I have the FSM for a 2000 Land Cruiser, and I"m still trying to locate the full procedure in there to see what it says. So far I've found nothing that says how often to grease spindle, only procedure on how to do the wheel bearing job and then set load correctly. I'll attach pics of that from my 2000 LC100 FSM, so this thread can be a little useful to someone else.

At 262,400 replaced front bearings, races, and grease. at 273,179 greased spindle for first time with SLEE tool, and like I said here I am ready to do it again. I'm not sure of the laws of grease, does it shrink or evaporate to some degree? I don't want to over grease the bearings to where they can't do what they Gotta do... Thanks if anyone sees this old thread of mine I've revived and responds.

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This looks like good work here.
 
Also this : from cruiseryard, part numbers!

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I've edited this thread from its original version to make it more useful to all, even though it's still redundant. Thanks.

I need some ideas of what great to use for the front wheel bearings and spindle for my 2000 Land Cruiser. Will any bearing grease do the job? Pics of your chosen product appreciated, if you are feeling ambitious. 😄. How about for the rear?
Rear bearing is sealed. Most members here have probably never seen their rear bearings.
 
I ended up buying a tool from SLEE that threads onto my axle, allowing me to pump grease with my grease gun until I see it flowing out the back of spindle. However, I'm feeling like I'm pumping a lot of grease until I actually see it coming out the back, and am worried I might be causing damage in the long run by having too much grease pumped in. I'm also conflicted as to how often I should be doing this. I don't do water crossings or off road at all, so I'm pretty much highway. I've done it once now after about 12k miles of driving, and just after I'd replaced both my wheel bearings and all the grease a while ago. Next 12k miles is pretty much here now, and I feel like I just did this. I have the FSM for a 2000 Land Cruiser, and I"m still trying to locate the full procedure in there to see what it says. So far I've found nothing that says how often to grease spindle, only procedure on how to do the wheel bearing job and then set load correctly. I'll attach pics of that from my 2000 LC100 FSM, so this thread can be a little useful to someone else.

At 262,400 replaced front bearings, races, and grease. at 273,179 greased spindle for first time with SLEE tool, and like I said here I am ready to do it again. I'm not sure of the laws of grease, does it shrink or evaporate to some degree? I don't want to over grease the bearings to where they can't do what they Gotta do... Thanks if anyone sees this old thread of mine I've revived and responds.

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I grease the spindle bearings when I redo the bearings. No need to do it sooner than that.
 
I grease the spindle bearings when I redo the bearings. No need to do it sooner than that.
how many miles you get out of a set like that? I am wondering if anyone else will chime in to say they do the same.
 
how many miles you get out of a set like that? I am wondering if anyone else will chime in to say they do the same.
Hard to say. I bought the truck at 230k. Rebuilt the front end at 250k. 75k later all is well, I’ve repacked them twice. The bearings were in poor shape when I broke in there the first time. Who knows when they were ever serviced. Despite that, the original spindle bearings were in surprisingly good shape. I replaced them anyway.
 
Hard to say. I bought the truck at 230k. Rebuilt the front end at 250k. 75k later all is well, I’ve repacked them twice. The bearings were in poor shape when I broke in there the first time. Who knows when they were ever serviced. Despite that, the original spindle bearings were in surprisingly good shape. I replaced them anyway.
I put new KOYO's and races in at 262,500, greased with spindle tool for first time since that at 273,179, and I'm currently at 286,000. I think I'm just going to wait until 300k, and then completely repack them then. Thanks for sharing your info.
 

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