Re: [GMCnet] Any experience with Lock and Lube Grease coupler? [message #327114 is a reply to message #327113] |
Thu, 14 December 2017 18:52 |
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Matt Colie
Messages: 8547 Registered: March 2007 Location: S.E. Michigan
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USAussie wrote on Thu, 14 December 2017 16:39Matt,
How does the Lincoln grease gun force grease into the pump?
Dave supplied the hubs and knuckles in 2008 or 2009 before I knew much about greases that were available so I went with his choice.
I don't understand why the one in your coach is messy if it doesn't bleed.
Regards,
Rob M.
Rob,
The one in the coach got has been the onboard grease gun for as long as I have had Chaumière. I carry it to grease the bogies every 1K. It did not always have Sympower in it. It is still slimey form the old grease as I never think to disassemble it and clean it. I did run over the outside with brake cleaner and about an half a roll of paper towels once, but that still left enough inside to keep leaking out. I also can't find another heavy weight deep plastic bag to keep it in, so it is still in the same slimy bag. Yeah, I am lazy about some things.
The Lincolns have a spring like everybody else, but I guess they have a better pusher seal. I just had to go to the barn to check something and stopped to look at the 1133 that I use for the front end. It has been hanging on my tool box loaded for at least three years. The was something to wipe off the pull handle. I can't promise that did not get there one time when I used it.
Up until about 2010, I used a red high temperature something grease. I still have a tube in stock because I did not find it until after I had changed 3 of four guns to SynPower. The forth gun is a Sears gun that I bought when I was in college. It is empty. Change was kind of sudden when I realized that the bearing on my mower had not been replaced in three years. This used to be an annual thing. Mowing the lawn in the spring or early summer and suddenly rubber smoke and a BANG and the mower would quiet now because one idler sheave had seized again and broken the belt. So, go back to the barn, drop the deck out from under the tractor, take all the covers off and get out the spare sheave and the backup belt. But the last time I did this, instead of just replacing the non-serviceable bearing, I put in a open bearing that I had greased with SynPower. That was when I decide to hell with the cost, Synpower is cheap. That bearing is still in there, but I do plan to open it up and regrease it this spring - if I remember and am not caught short by sudden grass growth (again).
If someone knows where I a 10mil 12x24 ploy bag, I would really like a clean new one.
Matt
Matt & Mary Colie - Chaumière -'73 Glacier 23 - Members GMCMI, GMCGL, GMCES
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