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09-30-2010, 12:14 PM
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| Quarry Creeper  Join Date: Jun 2010 Location: Wheeling
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|  zerk your axles?
not that its an epiphany or anything, but i had the idea to drill & tap my axles for a mini grease fitting. would this be logical or not be able to pass enough grease thru the inner bearings to the outer? i figured at least filling the ends, putting the halves together, and using the zerk in the middle till it came out would keep the parts safe from water excursions......i use lucas red n tacky #2...
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09-30-2010, 12:49 PM
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| RCC Addict Join Date: Nov 2009 Location: New Wilmington, PA
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09-30-2010, 12:54 PM
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| Quarry Creeper Join Date: Jun 2010 Location: Wheeling
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good thinking. i might do that with a pinion setscrew up high somewhere. never thought using the needle fitting of the small guns.....  |
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09-30-2010, 01:03 PM
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| RCC Addict Join Date: Jul 2008 Location: Fox Valley WI
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Actually, that's a pretty damn good idea. But then, I'm one of those people who just run their bearings till they fail and then replace them. I'm not big on maintenance  .
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09-30-2010, 01:06 PM
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| cherry bomb   Join Date: Jul 2006 Location: Nanaimo, BC, Canada
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I could see it being worth the time on losi worms, but i've never heard of much issue with standard greasing procedures with other axles.
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09-30-2010, 05:02 PM
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| Newbie Join Date: Aug 2010 Location: desert
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| zerks
I know some high end bicycle hubs used to come with a small almost flush grease zerk. I have never tried to buy them but I assume that they are rather common because the pump that was needed for them was very easy to find. These would be ideal for this application. I'll try to find a pic.
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09-30-2010, 05:54 PM
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| I wanna be Dave Join Date: Sep 2005 Location: Houston, TX
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IMO, it's always a good idea to grease your axles by disassembling them. This allows you to clean off the old grease and give everything a once over to make sure it is in good condition. I realize that this is more labor intensive, but it's worth the extra effort.
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09-30-2010, 06:39 PM
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| RCC Addict Join Date: Aug 2005 Location: Naoma, WV
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Don't want to overfill the housing with grease either.
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09-30-2010, 07:29 PM
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| I wanna be Dave Join Date: Nov 2009 Location: Houston
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I always fill mine to the seams of both cases with white lithium waterproof grease on my mud truck Axial. The reason I do this is to prevent dirt/mud from caking into the ring/pinion since the mud seems in through the holes, small cracks, and sides of the axles. Now no more water or mud in my axles and I get smoother running! |
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10-01-2010, 06:51 AM
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| RCC Addict Join Date: Nov 2009 Location: New Wilmington, PA
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This is important to do in a scaler you run in water, I have also done this to my tranny
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