Thanks, Thomas, Jim and Chuck,
My concern was as Jim describes in his U-joint illustration.
Chuck was able to open my eyes to multiple zerks in a central location
as My minds eye might have done, had I read Tom's idea a little more
carefully.
Thanks to All
Tim Timothy
'73 ?Glacier?
Pensacola, Fl.
>
> Tom's note indicates "fittings" and "lines", so perhaps the owner had a
> separate zerk and line to each grease point. It sounds like the plate is a
> central point for accessing the individual zerks. A lot of the grease
> points on large off-road rolling stock are accessed this way. I'm curious
> as to how you would link these lines to the grease points that have a large
> range of travel, i.e.. tie rods, drag link, and the steering column with
> rotary movement!
>
> Chuck
> 77 Kingsley
> North Idaho
>
> ----------
> > From: Jim Davis
> > To: 'gmcmotorhome'
> > Subject: RE: GMC: Rear Suspension Greasing
> > Date: Monday, November 09, 1998 7:22 PM
> >
> > Tim.......Many of the expensive automobiles during the 20's and 30's had
> > single point greasing, but the main problem with all of them was the part
>
> > that had the least clearance allowed the grease to ooze out and the other
>
> > fittings stayed dry. That's why, when I grease a U joint, I put grease
> in
> > each cup before I put it together in the yoke. If you try pumping grease
> in
> > by the zerk fitting, you'll notice that many times the grease will squirt
>
> > out of one seal on the trunion but not the others.
> > Jim Davis, 77 Coca Cola
> > Bandon, Oregon
> >
> >
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: LARRY DTIMOTHY [SMTP:ltim]
> > Sent: Sunday, November 08, 1998 8:02 PM
> > To: gmcmotorhome
> > Subject: Re: GMC: Rear Suspension Greasing
> >
> > > While at a GMC Heritage Cruisers rally in Canada I noticed that one of
> > the
> > > members had installed grease fittingsa to a plate behind the front
> bumper
> > > with lines going from there to each grease point on the coach. He
> could
> > > very quickly grease the whole coach from one point. Very neat. Anyone
>
> > else
> > > have something similar?
> >
> > A really nice idea, but is there any way to know that grease goes to all
> > the grease points connected, rather than to only some of the necessary
> > grease points?
> >
> > Tim Timothy
> > '73 ?Glacier?
> > Pensacola, Fl.
My concern was as Jim describes in his U-joint illustration.
Chuck was able to open my eyes to multiple zerks in a central location
as My minds eye might have done, had I read Tom's idea a little more
carefully.
Thanks to All
Tim Timothy
'73 ?Glacier?
Pensacola, Fl.
>
> Tom's note indicates "fittings" and "lines", so perhaps the owner had a
> separate zerk and line to each grease point. It sounds like the plate is a
> central point for accessing the individual zerks. A lot of the grease
> points on large off-road rolling stock are accessed this way. I'm curious
> as to how you would link these lines to the grease points that have a large
> range of travel, i.e.. tie rods, drag link, and the steering column with
> rotary movement!
>
> Chuck
> 77 Kingsley
> North Idaho
>
> ----------
> > From: Jim Davis
> > To: 'gmcmotorhome'
> > Subject: RE: GMC: Rear Suspension Greasing
> > Date: Monday, November 09, 1998 7:22 PM
> >
> > Tim.......Many of the expensive automobiles during the 20's and 30's had
> > single point greasing, but the main problem with all of them was the part
>
> > that had the least clearance allowed the grease to ooze out and the other
>
> > fittings stayed dry. That's why, when I grease a U joint, I put grease
> in
> > each cup before I put it together in the yoke. If you try pumping grease
> in
> > by the zerk fitting, you'll notice that many times the grease will squirt
>
> > out of one seal on the trunion but not the others.
> > Jim Davis, 77 Coca Cola
> > Bandon, Oregon
> >
> >
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: LARRY DTIMOTHY [SMTP:ltim]
> > Sent: Sunday, November 08, 1998 8:02 PM
> > To: gmcmotorhome
> > Subject: Re: GMC: Rear Suspension Greasing
> >
> > > While at a GMC Heritage Cruisers rally in Canada I noticed that one of
> > the
> > > members had installed grease fittingsa to a plate behind the front
> bumper
> > > with lines going from there to each grease point on the coach. He
> could
> > > very quickly grease the whole coach from one point. Very neat. Anyone
>
> > else
> > > have something similar?
> >
> > A really nice idea, but is there any way to know that grease goes to all
> > the grease points connected, rather than to only some of the necessary
> > grease points?
> >
> > Tim Timothy
> > '73 ?Glacier?
> > Pensacola, Fl.
