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Re: Progress and other ?'s

To: James <james.carpenter@ukaea.org.uk>,
Subject: Re: Progress and other ?'s
From: Atwell Haines <carbuff@scooter.net>
Date: Mon, 15 Jun 1998 17:52:04 -0400
At 07:32 AM 6/15/98 +0000, James wrote:
>
>I have pressed new nylon bushes in my two good Trunions, the others
>showes what happenes when you use grease.  It has become blocked, and
>water has seaped around the top, and rusted away the thread on the
>vertical link, good job I have more than one vertical link.  I was
>looking through the workshop manual to see what to do when assembeling
>the new trunion bushes.  It says to use Zink greese, I can only find
>greese with high Zink sulphate I don't think it's that.  What do other
>people use for this bit of there car?  

I used Anti-Sieze compound, the Aluminum kind, on all my bushing hardware.
If you are referring to the instruction to use grease between the bushing
halves on the trunnion, I packed that with synthetic grease.  (Space-Age
Stuff!)
>
Atwell Haines
'79 Spitfire  FM96062 UO
Succasunna, NJ USA




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