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Mobil 1 grease works too and is readily available. That Neo stuff looks good, but I suspect that it's not the breakdown but rather contamination or absence of grease that causes bearing failure. In othe words, when worn seals allow contaminants in and grease to leak out, this spells doom for the bearing.

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I purchased the front wheel bearing OEM for my 98 OBW. It looks packed! should I use the factory greese or is there something better out there?

 

Just picked up my rear bearings and seals from the Subaru Dealer yesterday for my 98 OBW.

The service tech came over and pulled the bearings out of the boxes and stated these don't come packed correctly. They repack all wheel bearings, and I should repack them with any QUALITY (he really stressed QUALITY) wheel bearing grease of my choice.

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I clean mine with brake cleaner (spray can type) then repack with high temp. wheel bearing grease, but blow dry bearing good before repacking.

The first bearing I done I left the grease in it that came with the bearing, lasted about one month. However the hub also had play in it so I dont know how much damage was done from grease and how much was because of the bad hub.

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