Packing a bearing. My favorite method.

atblis

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I've read all sorts of ways to do this. Special tools, by hand, duct tape, etc. etc.

However, I've never heard anybody mention this.

Use a grease needle.

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Just slide the needle between rollers. Pump till clean grease comes out. Work your way around the bearing. Works awesome. You waste hardly any grease, the old grease gets pushed out by the new, and the bearing is usually packed so tight you can't turn it by hand. Heck, sometimes you can do it with the bearing still installed.
 
Got mine at autozone a while back.
 
Also

About $3-4 at just about any Auto parts store.

I've found that you can grease otherwise ungreaseable things. For instance, the 1310 CV yokes on Cherokee drive shafts. You probably will have to remove them from the vehicle, but you can grease the center part.
 
wbcarver had several Greasing tools that were very cool. One I liked was a flat chisel with a hole on the end that you could wedge between leaf springs, or anything that was flat.
 
An old Cajun injector will work as well. Just cut off the double end and there you go.
 
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