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Re: Trunion "Oiling"

To: Jim Dean <jdean@designdimension.com>
Subject: Re: Trunion "Oiling"
From: Joe Curry <spitlist@gte.net>
Date: Tue, 05 May 1998 22:17:39 -0700
Jim,
Cause everybody who is supposed to know about those nasty little things
says that's what you're supposed to use.  However, I have talked to a
number of people who admit using regular grease in the trunions without
any apparant trouble.

Anyway, that's the answer.

Regards,
Joe

Jim Dean wrote:
> 
> Excuse my ignorance, but why would one wish to put 90 weight gesr oil in the
> trunions?
> 
> Jim Dean
> 
> 68 GT6 (Parts for the 69)
> 69 GT6 (soon to be one with the 68)
> 
> Joe Curry wrote:
> 
> > Hi Gang,
> > In working on the Spit this weekend, I finally got a chance to test a
> > theory I have been playing with.  I always wondered how you could get 90
> > weight gear oil in the front trunions when I can't find a grease gun
> > cartridge filled with the stuff.
> >
> > Because I ran out of grease in my gun, I unscrewed the end and poured
> > about a pint of 90 weight gear oil into the empty tube and reattached
> > the end.  After pumping quite a bit of air out of the gun, I discovered
> > that if the gun is held higher than the grease nipple, the oil can
> > indeed be pumped into the trunion.
> >
> > Whether it will "stay" in there is a different matter!
> >
> > So now I know.
> >
> > Joe Curry
> > --
> > "If you can't excel with talent, triumph with effort."
> >
> >  -- Dave Weinbaum in National Enquirer

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