Greasing hub bearings - old XT

carlstone
carlstone Posts: 602
edited November 2007 in Workshop
My wheels are built on old XT hubs (about 16 years old). The hubs have covers on them with a little hole that has a red dot behind it. I have an idea that to grease the bearings you have to rotate this cover until the hole in the cover lines up with a hole in the inner cover so you can inject grease into the bearings. Is this the case? As you can probably tell I have never ever greased the bearings in thousands of miles :oops:

If this is the case is there any tips for doing this, I have the grease and an old syringe but do I need a proper grease injecting gun or similar?

Cheers :D

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  • PETER 216
    PETER 216 Posts: 1
    I have XT hubs on my 1991 Orange Clockwork. Yes you just slide the little hole to the open position. I used BlackGold grease which came in sort of injector. Worked OK. Have to say, all my Shimano XT stuff is still working fine after thousands of miles.
  • carlstone
    carlstone Posts: 602
    Cheers Peter. Grease syringe at the ready for weekend :D

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