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Re: zerk

To: <doug@dougbraun.com>
Subject: Re: zerk
From: "Larry Vaughan" <lvaughan@pldi.net>
Date: Sun, 31 Oct 2004 20:18:43 -0600
Hey Doug,
 When you take the rack off  and try to clean every thing up, so you can put
your new gaiters and tie rod ends on, what's the procedure for greaseing the
works without a grease zerk on the pinion box?

Larry

----- Original Message ----- 
From: <doug@dougbraun.com>
To: "Larry Vaughan" <lvaughan@pldi.net>
Cc: <spitfires@autox.team.net>
Sent: Sunday, October 31, 2004 4:45 PM
Subject: Re: zerk


> I have never found one that matches.  If you really must
> have a grease fitting there, maybe it would be best to
> drill and tap the existing plug for a standard small-size fitting.
>
> Doug Braun
> '72 Spit
>
> At 03:38 PM 10/31/2004 -0600, you wrote:
> >What grease zerk replaces the plug in the steering box cap? '73 and up.
NAPA
> >couldn't match the plug threads with fine thread or metric nut's, but it
> >didn't really matter because they only have coarse thread grease zerks.





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