I need a solution for applying grease.

"Rusty Vandura - www.tinyurl.com/keepoppo" (rustyvandura) 02/10/2018 at 17:38 • Filed to: None

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I need to dispense some grease through a very skinny tube, like straw skinny, or a bit skinnier than that, six inches long. Any suggestions? (And please, no gentleman sausage jokes even if Oppo.)

shop-teacher > Rusty Vandura - www.tinyurl.com/keepoppo 02/10/2018 at 17:45

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They make spray white litheum grease. Maybe tape two of the spray straws together? 

Urambo Tauro > Rusty Vandura - www.tinyurl.com/keepoppo 02/10/2018 at 17:49

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Grease needle:

Fits perfectly inside one of those red straws that come with a can of carb cleaner or whatever.

MM54 > Rusty Vandura - www.tinyurl.com/keepoppo 02/10/2018 at 17:51

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Is it properly sized to just thread a zerk into one end and use a normal grease gun?

pip bip - choose Corrour > Urambo Tauro 02/10/2018 at 17:52

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^^this

Die-Trying > Rusty Vandura - www.tinyurl.com/keepoppo 02/10/2018 at 18:56

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Recovering Gaijin > Rusty Vandura - www.tinyurl.com/keepoppo 02/10/2018 at 19:04

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Don’t know where you live...Southern States sells many sizes of syringe. With or without the actual needle. They have one ~7" long by about an inch diameter. I use that size with clear tubing to put gear oil in transmissions. Should work for light grease. Microwave first to lower viscosity, maybe?

ETA: try Tractor Supply perhaps. Or Northern Tool. I think I even saw an old-fashioned bearing-packer at Harbor Freight with a syringe in the set.

Rusty Vandura - www.tinyurl.com/keepoppo > shop-teacher 02/10/2018 at 19:23

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I need to lubricate rollers in a car seat adjustment track. The original grease was more like the traditional stuff than white lithium.

Rusty Vandura - www.tinyurl.com/keepoppo > Die-Trying 02/10/2018 at 19:24

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That’s not gonna be straw-thin.

Rusty Vandura - www.tinyurl.com/keepoppo > Recovering Gaijin 02/10/2018 at 19:25

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That’s a good idea. Plastic syringe with vinyl tubing. Standard wheel bearing grease isn’t very viscous. There’s my answer.

Rusty Vandura - www.tinyurl.com/keepoppo > MM54 02/10/2018 at 19:26

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Too fat. The solution is below. Thanks.

Recovering Gaijin > Rusty Vandura - www.tinyurl.com/keepoppo 02/10/2018 at 19:38

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Pro tip: rough-up the syringe tip and epoxy the tubing on it. No matter how you secure it, cover your eyes and hair. High-moly grease is murder on expensive combed Egyptian cotton pillowcases.

No; I don’t want to talk about it

Die-Trying > Rusty Vandura - www.tinyurl.com/keepoppo 02/10/2018 at 19:40

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the end should fit right over a straw though right?

Rusty Vandura - www.tinyurl.com/keepoppo > Die-Trying 02/10/2018 at 19:57

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Yes, it might. Good thought.

Life treating you okay?

I don’t have much to report on Rusty, other than I started it today and warmed it up a little and moved it some. I just don’t have any time. But what I have done is come up with a plan for some stuff.

There’s a terrific (extremely conservative) old guy in Tennessee who has been fooling with GM I6's for 50 years. I’ve probably mentioned him to you. He has an Offenhauser aluminum intake manifold that should fit my engine and which attaches to the exhaust manifold so you can get intake manifold heat, which you lose when you use headers or other custom exhaust. That, and a 292 exhaust manifold and a larger diameter exhaust will give me a more trucky sounding exhaust note. And he’s specified the Holley 7884 two-barrel carburetor rated at 350 CFM. If you do the math, the 250 can only use just shy of 300 CFM — he taught me this — so most of the GM straight-sixes out there are way overcarbureted.

The other thing is the front doors, especially the driver side, are SHOT. Everything from rubber, regulators, tracks, the works. Needing some TLC, they are...

The thing is driveable, but the exhaust leaks in places. Really, the only thing keeping me from driving it around is the lack of an electrical system which may, for all I know, work just fine if it’s hooked up. Maybe this Spring/Summer I’ll activate the registration, but my daughter has a wedding and a commencement and a second wedding reception, so it’s a busy stretch.

functionoverfashion > Rusty Vandura - www.tinyurl.com/keepoppo 02/10/2018 at 20:05

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I’ve used a gear oil pump for putting grease into transfer cases, differentials, etc. for a long time now. Basically like a soap dispenser but you can fit some clear tubing on the end. The ones I’ve used were all originally intended for use on an outboard motor lower unit but that can’t be the only application.

Rusty Vandura - www.tinyurl.com/keepoppo > functionoverfashion 02/10/2018 at 20:31

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I wouldn’t have thought of that. I’m lubricating a seat track, so I need to make sure it’s clean and I don’t introduce any sulfur smell into the car.

Rusty Vandura - www.tinyurl.com/keepoppo > Recovering Gaijin 02/10/2018 at 20:35

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I can imagine a guy having an accident in a garage and staining some pillow cases in the laundry and the guy’s wife getting mad at him, but if something like that happened, he probably wouldn’t wanna talk about it. In my case, if it didn’t stink like sulfur afterward, my wife wouldn’t care. Sometimes, when I’m out working in the driveway, especially at night, she’ll come out and keep me company. I really like that.

shop-teacher > Rusty Vandura - www.tinyurl.com/keepoppo 02/10/2018 at 20:41

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I just learned that garage door lubricant was a thing, also available in spray form. That might do the trick

Die-Trying > Rusty Vandura - www.tinyurl.com/keepoppo 02/10/2018 at 21:10

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yeah, its been going okay. i been keeping after it. been buying parts for the model T project. i am buying engine parts. none of them have been cheap. going to end up with a very high strung little engine, with a very quick throttle response. still a very long way to go in sourcing parts though. the pile that i have, is almost high enough that i can almost SEE the pile of parts that i NEED from the top of it........

those two barrel carbs are rated slightly different than 4 barrel carbs. its an awkward rating difference, BUT the small carb, and the intake/exhaust should help make the van more peppy, more responsive......

those doors are pretty hearty, so long as you keep them greased, they should go up and down alright. a bunch of the parts from the trucks ought to be pretty close, you might be able to use the rollers in the window tracks. i always helped my windows up and down, so as to not over-stress the cranking mechanisms.

you could always use the van to go TO the wedding and parties. you could stay IN the van, might even save some money with it......