Was Skip's reply on the list? It didn't get to my neck of the woods.
Bud Krueger
Bullwinkle wrote:
> Skip is right:
>
> I went out and carefully checked the TD and there is a rubber
> ring. The rubber is not a seal or boot, but a ring used to
> supply pressure against the metal cups that act as grease seals.
> Both the shop manual and the factory parts book refer to these
> rubber pieces as a "pressure ring-for caps." They do not enclose
> the metal cups which are always visible and that lead to my
> error. I always remembered that the metal cups were visible
> whenever I greased the tie rod ends, and that's because the
> rubber doesn't enclose them.
>
> You probably could manufacture something similar to this from
> rubber hose.
>
> Blake
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