Date: Thu, 18 Mar 1999 14:10:34 -0500
Reply-To: Robert Rountree <rountree@PLANETEER.COM>
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From: Robert Rountree <rountree@PLANETEER.COM>
Subject: Re: Grease Needle....an important find!
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This is true.... that's why I only injected into the small end of the CV's,
towards the joint.... say this was the shape of a boot....+AF4-v+AF4-v+AF4-- +ADw----- I
injected into the side wall, where there is very little flex, this is very
important, on older more brittle boots, don't inject into the valley....
Plus this is a REAL needle... the same size used for giving blood.... it has
a very long low angle on the tip.... the holes just seal right back up...
you have to be careful with this thing.... it's SHARP...and bends easily..
after all the joints the tip was starting to get duller.... but still, for
+ACQ-6 bucks +- grease , I got a real improvement.
-----Original Message-----
From: Jose R. Moscoso +ADw-jmoscoso+AEA-uccaribe.edu+AD4-
To: Robert Rountree +ADw-rountree+AEA-PLANETEER.COM+AD4AOw- +ADw-vanagon+AEA-GERRY.VANAGON.COM+AD4-
Date: Thursday, March 18, 1999 11:35 AM
Subject: Re: Grease Needle....an important find+ACE-
+AD4-Another thing you have to look out for is that the boot can develop a
+AD4-fracture in the needle puncture site. Movement and flexing can produce a
+AD4-broken boot in the future, how long?, have no idea (too many imponderables)
+AD4-but have experience this in the past.
+AD4-
+AD4-
+AD4------Original Message-----
+AD4-From: Robert Rountree +ADw-rountree+AEA-PLANETEER.COM+AD4-
+AD4-To: vanagon+AEA-GERRY.VANAGON.COM +ADw-vanagon+AEA-GERRY.VANAGON.COM+AD4-
+AD4-Date: Thursday, March 18, 1999 11:17 AM
+AD4-Subject: Grease Needle....an important find+ACE-
+AD4-
+AD4-
+AD4APg-Vanagoneers
+AD4APg-
+AD4APg-I was speculating earlier in the month about getting grease into my old
but
+AD4APg-sound CV boots. Well Sunday I was wasting some time in a small Canadian
+AD4-tire
+AD4APg-store while my wife visited her aunt in the hospital.... and I found one
+AD4APg-heck of a neat tool.... it's called a grease needle. Looks like a large
+AD4-size
+AD4APg-needle with a grease fitting on the end. Well I bought a few tubes of CV
+AD4APg-grease and injected grease into every boot I could find..... Here's the
+AD4-good
+AD4APg-news....My CV's (all 8 on a Syncro) are much smoother, and make very
little
+AD4APg-road noise now..... Here's even more good news..... back on the
+AD4-transmission
+AD4APg-are two boots, that cover the shift rod bushing. I have been having
+AD4-problems
+AD4APg-finding 1st sometimes, the gear works find, just finding it is some what
+AD4APg-vague.... well now... it's very clearly defined. I really filled those
+AD4-boots
+AD4APg-up, so they expanded and covered the whole area they can cover (they had,
+AD4APg-kind of, collapsed and some shift rod surface was exposed, I actually did
+AD4-it
+AD4APg-3 times, each time adding more until they were full and until I got the
+AD4-best
+AD4APg-response)......You ready?.... some more good news....the Tie rod ends +ACY-
+AD4-ball
+AD4APg-joints, both got a few shots.... Now the whole front end seems a bit
+AD4APg-smoother... I've always wondered why there were very few grease nipples on
+AD4APg-the moving parts on this van???? Well now you can make your own on any
+AD4APg-equipment that has a boot. You will be injecting clean grease without
+AD4-having
+AD4APg-to open or disturb anything....One thing you do have to be careful of,
+AD4-these
+AD4APg-needles are delicate, don't go ruff housing around with them, or you could
+AD4APg-break it off in your joint....ooh that hurts just saying it :+AF4-)
+AD4APg-
+AD4APg-Here's the facts+ADs-....
+AD4APg-LubriMatic Grease injection needle, code 11181
+AD4APg-Lubrimatic Stant Corp. Dixion, IL 61021
+AD4APg-Think it was +ACQ-5.95CDN.... One of
+AD4APg-the best lube tools I've ever found.
+AD4APg-Rob
+AD4APg-87 Westy SyncroGL.....Cynosure 79k km
+AD4APg-Moonstone Ont.
+AD4APg-rountree+AEA-planeteer.com
+AD4-
+AD4-
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