Mike,
That's exactly what I mean. These tend to be cheap enough that it is worth
buying a second gun just to do this job - better than trying to empty grease
out of a half-filled gun, filling with oil, doing your trunnions, and then
swapping back again!
Buy gun, pull out the bar at the bottom that controls the plunger and lock
(usually a twist, or move the bar off-centre), unscrew top, pour in oil,
re-attatch top, release plunger. While the seals are good enough to hold
grease long-term, oil may seep out of a cheap gun, so it may be worth storing
it without oil in between services.
Richard and Daffy
m.chmura@umassp.edu on 28Jun2000 02:20 PM
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Subject: Re: adjusting konis and oiling trunnions
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Richard,
By 'cheapo' do you mean the cartridge type grease gun? So do you ignore
putting
in one of those grease filled cartridges and pour the gear oil directly into
the
gun? Please explain that little process?
Thx in advance for the help.
mike chmura
78 Spitfire 1500
Richard B Gosling wrote:
> Ron,
>
> To oil the trunnions, I just use a cheapo grease gun from my local car parts
> store. Take the top off, pour in the gear oil, connect up to the nipple and
> off you pump (sorry - far too much sexual innuendo in doing this job!). You
> do get a bit of leakage, but no worse than you do when pumping grease -
> anyway, I always view leaked or spilt oil and grease as rust-proofer for
> whatever part it leaked onto!
>
> Easy job, there's no reason for paying anyone else to do it - unless, like
> Laura, you live somewhere you are not allowed to!
>
> Richard and Daffy
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