Where's the throwout bearing grease tube? (part II

Posted by RonFromCT on June 08, 2006 at 19:07:35 from (68.0.250.221):

Hopefully this message will save someone else a ton of trouble. After spending countless hours looking for the clutch throwout bearing grease zerk on my 1940 M, I got some good advice from this board that it had probably "backed out" and fallen to the bottom of the clutch housing.

Soooo, after purchasing another tube from an old M, I went to work trying to figure out how to put the darn thing in. No matter what I tried, threads wouldn't catch. Working through that tiny hole didn't help matters any, either. Then I did some careful looking and cleaning with q-tips (all through the 1" hole) and figured that the old tube didn't back out, but had broken off! A quick trip to the hardware store for an easy-out and 2 minutes later I had the offending piece in my hand.

Still can't put the new one in since I can't get the threads to go straight in (the hole is off center a bit, which is probably why the old one broke off), but at least I could install a flexible 1/8 grease tube from my grease gun and give it a good shot. I figure I'll install the new tube someday when I have to do some clutch work or have the belly pump off.

All in all, this has taken me over 2 months to get this stupid bearing greased. Probably won't do much good as I'm sure it's been dry as a bone for years, but this became personal and I wasn't going to lose.

Replies:

• Re: Where's the throwout bearing grease tube? (par Slappy 03:35:52 06/09/06 (0)
• Re: Where's the throwout bearing grease tube? (par ghumba 19:19:19 06/08/06 (0)

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