Flush the dirty grease out with degreaser first, then once it's clean and dry pack with fresh grease. Degreaser's designed for this after all.

as coatsey says - but grease is cheap at a tenner a kilo and you will not get muich more life out of those bearings. It'll do until you can get new ones.

Still got the question - how you get the grease in without wasting so much??

smear it in with your fingers, doesn't need to be packed in solid, just work it into the gaps.

if you smear it just goes onto the top of the cage no?

What do you mean waste. Are you ladling it on to the floor or pushing a little bit at a time in with your finger tip. I assume these are bearings for a bike and not a tractor or oil rig.

waste as in squirt with grease gun some goes in some then curls back out like a shit, this is then "waste"

Jeeze !

Use your bloody fingers man! grease costs pennies anyway

Right Bearings out and seals off, bath in neat fenwicks for 30 mins, sluiced with boiling water, re-bathed in fenwicks, scrubbed with the nail brush (don't tell the Mrs!!), re-sluiced in boiling water, wd-40 to drive water out. Cloth dried and now on the radiator, ready to repack with quality grease!!

Is that right??

I'm thinking if you've gone to the trouble of getting the bearings out you might just as well fit new ones 🙂 I'm going to be testing some Ebay specials to see how long they last compared to SKF...

got some ebay cheapies on the way but it was no bother to get em out as the old swingarm was going back to 'dale for warranty so just pressed the old bearings out

all reassembled - seems great