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Matt,
If you're simply regreasing the bearings, that's about it. You'd the same for the inner bearing. Usually, you "pack" the grease into the bearing by forcing the grease between the rollers until it pushes the old grease out the other side.
Do you know how to pack a bearing?
In terms of nomenclature.....
A wheel bearing is composed of four major parts:
1) The inner bearing surface, which is generically called a race or raceway, is--on a tapered roller bearing--called the "cone" (because it's cone shaped).
2) The outer bearing surface, that it pressed into the wheel hub, is also generically called a race or raceway. For a tapered roller bearing, this is also called the "cup" (because it's cup or funnel shaped).
3) The litlle round roller things are called tapered bearings, in this case, because of their tapered shape.
4) The small metal gizmo that holds the tapered bearings loosely together around the cone is called the cage.
For wheel bearings, the bearing nearest the nut is the outer bearing; the bearing toward the engine is the inner bearing.
This PDF file has some info, and this engineering website has additional info on tapered bearings.
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Don Foster (near Cape Cod, MA)
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