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    What's the verdict on low cost hubs/wheel bearings?

    The part numbers for the wheel bearings that fit the duramax 2500's and 3500's up thru and including 2007 are as follows: The Timken bearing is sp580310, The skf bearing is br930416, The moog number is 515058. If you put "515058 bearing" in ebay, you will find several different aftermarket...
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    What's the verdict on low cost hubs/wheel bearings?

    I think that the factory wheel bearings on the duramax were Timken. Some of them failed before 50,000 miles, so the factory bearings were nothing special. It would be interesting to know if anybody had their wheel bearings to fail after greasing them like mentioned earlier in the thread.
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    What's the verdict on low cost hubs/wheel bearings?

    From the 90's up through 1998, the gm wheel bearings were bullet proof. We had several of those with high mileage and never had a failure. From 1999 on, they were junk. That is real progress for you to have a component that works great and change the design to result in low mileage failure...
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    What's the verdict on low cost hubs/wheel bearings?

    I usually pump 20 strokes from my grease gun. I have heard of people putting 50 or 60 pumps in them with no problems. I believe the only mistake one could make is if they had the greaser fitting tightly in the abs hole and pressured the seals with too much grease. The wheel bearing greaser that...
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    What's the verdict on low cost hubs/wheel bearings?

    I think that you should grease any of the wheel bearing and hub assemblies that you have new or used. Even new, they have a minimal amount of grease. After a few failures from a lack of grease at 50,000 miles on the factory assemblies, I have been greasing mine on 4 different vehicles and...
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