I also keep 100 feet of flight line in my emergency maintenance bag, right next to the half gallon can of prop wash, and 5 gallon bucket of elbow grease... Richard Golen <rgolen@umassd.edu> wrote: Before you use the elbow grease on the muffler bearing, go to your local airport's malignance facility and get a quart of prop wash, makes the job soooo much easier....if you can afford it, relative bearing grease works much better than elbow grease.
Ric At 10:16 AM 11/24/2007, Evan Mac Donald wrote: >Would you use elbow grease to lube a muffler bearing... ? > >pdooley wrote: Sorry, I know it's Saturday >but regarding muffler bearings- > >Many car exhaust systems use a "ball joint" type connection to allow the >exhaust to flex as the engine rocks back and forth. Since this ball joint >allows relative motion between 2 different exhaust pieces you could in >theory call this a bearing. |
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