[Healeys] Greasing the Driveshaft U Joint

[Harold Manifold]

Update on the driveshaft grease fitting. Little did I realize when I
replaced the u-joints early in the rebuild process the grease fittings in
the new u-joints would be metric. M6x1. I tried the original longer grease
nipples but the threads don't match. Will try to source longer metric lon
6Mx1 on-line.

I would recommend getting longer grease nipples when buying a new u-joint
or making sure the old grease nipples will fit.

Harold

On Sat, Oct 1, 2022 at 10:11 AM healeymanjim <healeymanjim at hansencc.net>
wrote:

> i have learned to always replace the short ones with the long ones.
>
> >  -------Original Message-------
> >  From: Harold Manifold <manifold at telus.net>
> >  To: Healey List <healeys at autox.team.net>
> >  Subject: [Healeys] Greasing the Driveshaft U Joint
> >  Sent: Sep 29 '22 10:34
> >
> >  Hello,
> >
> >  My Healey is nearing completion and after installing the driveshaft I
> >  tried to grease the U-Joint only to find the nozzle on my grease gun
> >  is too large to fit into the u-joint. Is there a grease gun with a
> >  narrow nozzle or a narrow nozzle extension? I replaced the u-joints
> >  and used the grease fittings that came with the new joints. Should the
> >  grease nipples (zerk fitting) be changed to the longer ones?
> >
> >  Thanks... Harold
> >
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