George;
You're absolutely right! Go have a beer.- Relax- Approximately 50% of us
have been pumping grease in the trunnions for 25 years without a
problem. LOGIC? You own an LBC- there is no such thing as logic. The
best thing you could do is to leave the zerk in the steering rack and
pump away at to your heart's content rather than go to the trouble of
removing the fitting- IMHO>
Jeff Johnson
'76 TR6
trunnions greased regularly since new
George Hay Kain, III wrote:
>
> Since there is usually some logic behind many of the seemingly-bizarre LBC
> car maintenance rituals, can anyone tell me why on a TR6 steering rack, the
> owner's manual tells us to unscrew the rack cover bolt, screw in a
> hard-to-find zerk fitting, grease it exactly five pumps, then remove the
> zerk fitting and replaced the cover?
>
> Why don't you just leave the zerk fitting in place so all is in readiness
> when you need to grease it again? My WAG (wild a.. guess) is that they
> really don't want you to be putting grease into the steering rack any more
> than necessary. Any ideas?
>
> One other mystery - I carelessly read only the page of the owner's manual
> that shows a diagram of the vehicle and which says the steering trunions get
> "grease". After pumping grease into the zerk fittings on the trunions, I
> read the manual in more detail which says, essentially, don't put grease in
> the trunions, put oil in your grease gun and put oil, not grease, in the
> trunions. This is apparently a British version of Catch 22. But now what?
> Should I now try to force the grease out with oil, or take the trunions
> apart to get the grease out, or just leave the grease in there and go have a
> beer? If I do the latter, will my front wheels soon fall off?
>
> /s/ George Hay Kain, III - ghkain@blazenet.net
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