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#19587 05/09/2003 1:56 AM | Joined: Mar 2003 Posts: 4 Member | | Member Joined: Mar 2003 Posts: 4 | Well, I just spent some quality time under my '46 the other day. Pulled out my dusty creeper and slid under Norma Jean (my truck's given name). Armed with my trusty grease gun, I gave her my first (and far from the last) greasing. I noticed grease fittings on the top of the brake drums. These appeared to have NEVER been hit with grease. These babies are really rusty, unlike the other fittings on the truck I know from my days owning and servicing roll-off trucks that the brakes need to be greased, but NEVER too much. Should I grease these fittings with the typical one-squirt of grease, or just leave them alone?
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#19588 05/09/2003 2:01 AM | | Anonymous Unregistered | | Anonymous Unregistered | Those sound like the bleeders for the wheel cylinders, you can grease them, but it would be a waste of grease . . . | | |
#19589 05/09/2003 3:26 AM | Joined: Mar 2001 Posts: 384 Shop Shark | | Shop Shark Joined: Mar 2001 Posts: 384 | Welcome. Whenever I get a new truck, I try to get a corresponding shop manual as soon as I can--helps with stuff like this. Nice truk you have.
Buzz'n Half Dozen
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#19590 05/09/2003 5:34 AM | Joined: Feb 2001 Posts: 1,897 Member | | Member Joined: Feb 2001 Posts: 1,897 | Those are bleeders for the wheel cylinders. They colud be sprayed with penetrant and maybe put a little grease around the threads to help then come loose after letting them soak.
NOTE: do not open the bleeder unless you are ready to bleed the brakes or are going to do repairs to the brake hydraulic system.
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#19591 05/09/2003 5:59 AM | Joined: Dec 2001 Posts: 31 Member | | Member Joined: Dec 2001 Posts: 31 | Are you guy's falling for this? :confused:
I'm really scared now.
Thomas Mott
1949 GMC 250
1957 Dodge COE c-700
1959 Chris Craft 17' w/big journal 327 for more power
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