Cleaning Wheel Bearings

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Cleaning Wheel Bearings

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What do you guys use for cleaning wheel bearings on your van? Haynes mentions paraffin, but people seem to genereally use whatever they have on the shelf, white spirit, brake cleaner, WD-40, petrol, acetone, thinners, isopropyl alcohol. Can all of those be used? Thanks.
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Anything that dissolves grease will do. I prefer paraffin though. It is cheap and safe to work with and does a brilliant job!
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Diesel+petrol 50-50%
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1986 Multivan ex-Caravelle. Van since 2006, running mTDi 1Z since 2008 with Fiat Croma 1.9 TDid pump 2008-2019, custom pump since 2019
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keynsham1 wrote: ↑10 Feb 2023, 22:30 Anything that dissolves grease will do. I prefer paraffin though. It is cheap and safe to work with and does a brilliant job!

Sold! Thanks a lot. I intend to get some, you said a couple of magic words, cheap and safe (cheap is especially magical).
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