What grease should I use to lube the bearing inside my new spindle. My former spindle had the brass bushing. The new spindles have a bearing in there instead. I was thinking it would be the same as a wheel bearing due to the speed of the shaft on the bearing, but it is in with the knuckle. So Moly or no Moly? My service manuals don't say anything because they show the brass bushing.
which grease on new spindle with bearing
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Molly, same as the knuckle. 
Do be generous with it.
Do be generous with it.
semlin
curmudgeon
I used redline moly synthetic grease which is rated for both the knuckles and the wheel bearings. Since the spindle bearing shares space with the knuckle, you need to use the same grease. It seems more like a guide and I don't think it actually carries any load like the wheel bearing so it should be ok.
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I used Redline on my last wheel bearing pack and I had bad luck with it. I'm going back to Amsoil for this rebuild. Purple in the knuckles (moly) and red in the wheel bearings. I had real good luck with this grease in my 60 and in our other 80. Plus another benefit is the Amsoil is about 1/3 of the price of the Redline. Thanks for the info. Also, I found that the Toyota dealer that serviced this front end last put the axle seals in backwards. The same dealer put two hub gaskets on the DS and none on the PS. I can't figure this out. The factory service manual is written for boneheads like me, how can a factory trained mechanic screw things up like this? I've told my dad to quit going there. My other 80 had a wheel bearing pack and new rotors put on at the local Toyota dealer the week before I bought it. I thought it would be good for a year or so. I pulled it apart last week to find that they did not use Toyota wheel bearing seals. I guess the old saying is right. If you want it done right I guess you have to do it yourself. Or at least this way I have nobody to blame but myself.
semlin
curmudgeon
can you explain your bad luck with redline? I have never heard of any problems or are you superstitious?
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I lost a front wheel bearing recently with Redline. I don't know what happened exactly. Maybe it was me? Maybe I had it too tight or too loose? Maybe I had a bad bearing when I reinstalled and didn't notice. When I disassembled the the rotor there was no grease left. It was just black gummy material. I did both front wheels at the same time. The DS got Redline and I ran out of Redline so the PS got Mobil 1. The DS fried the bearing and took out the spindle. The one weird thing is that it never started howling or making any noise. The PS was still a nice red color packed well. Just as I had left it 9 months ago after putting the new rotors on. I've seen this happen a couple of times before on trailers. But the trailers really were abused (dunked in water, heavy loads, rough roads at pretty high speeds) so I didn't think much about it. I had really good luck with the Amsoil in the past, so I'm switching back. Maybe it is superstition? I'm not going to bad mouth the product. I'm just not going to use it anymore. One other thing I can think of that may have been the problem is water contamination. I had done some recent water crossings that were over 3 feet in depth. Maybe the water washed the grease out?
Eric, If you haven't already put it back together, can you take a digital pic of the spindle with new bearing?
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Sure I'll take a photo of it. I hope to start reassembly tonight. It has been down for a month now. 1 week of waiting for time to disassemble, a day to pull a part and see what I needed, waited 2 weeks on parts, then I got a sinuns infection and the Outlaws came for a visit.
Basicly it has a bushing on the outside edge to contact the thrust of the birf and a needle roller bearing inside that. I was going to take a pic of it before I shipped it but I left the digi home the day it came in. 
