wet bolt on suspension
One of my wet bolts will not take grease. How do I remedy this little situation??
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Lynnmor wrote:
If you use a small bottle jack and place it right at the end of the spring within the hanger, and then jack till it takes grease. You may have to jack till that tire comes off the ground.
What is happening is that the bolt and bushing wears to a perfect mating and the small grease hole would take thousands of pounds per square inch to flow some grease. To head off that problem and get grease to flow to where it is needed, carve a figure eight inside the bushings before installing, you can't make it very deep because the bushings are thin. Here are some examples of what I am talking about.
Having never seen a wet bolt kit, I didn't realize that the bushings =weren't= grooved. I know all the bronze bushings I dealt with on our farm over 40 years were grooved. Does anyone make a kit with pre-grooved bushings?
Lyle
