easiest from the top, but if you find it at all gummy, it'd be best to soak the housing part and clean it out too ... in my experience the best lube is a dry graphite type

Bill


Moved over to the Passing Lane

"When we tug a single thing in nature, we find it attached to the rest of the world" ~ John Muir
"When we tug a single thing on an old truck, we find it falls off" ~ me
Some TF series details & TF heater pics