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Re: spit rear wheel bearings..

To: Andrew Mace <amace@unix2.nysed.gov>
Subject: Re: spit rear wheel bearings..
From: Joe Curry <spitlist@gte.net>
Date: Mon, 20 Mar 2000 21:48:39 -0700
Cc: Dan Carey <appleorchard@prodigy.net>, triumphs@autox.team.net
References: <Pine.SOL.3.91.1000320233501.14775C-100000@unix2.nysed.gov>
Oh Well!  You can always do as I do...  cut off a bolt with
the correct threads and with a file, scribe a slot for a
flat screwdriver!!!

Joe

Andrew Mace wrote:
> 
> On Mon, 20 Mar 2000, Joe Curry wrote:
> 
> > Better still, keep the plugs handy to use in the zerk holes
> > in your universal joints.  If you put zerks in the U-Joints,
> > they will either be too short and you won't get a grease gun
> > in there, or too long and they will break off the first time
> > the U-Joint bends.  Put the long zerks in to lube and
> > replace with those caps as soon as you are through.
> 
> Good advice for the most part. But most of the "plugs" I've ever seen for
> the rear wheel bearing grease ports have hex-heads about 7/16" across and
> won't work in the u-joint.
> 
> --Andy
> 
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