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March 20, 2004
Brad,
I don't know of any ready made double zerked A-arms, surely if
there are any, someone here will know. If not, I did my own setup,
and it was fairly easy - as follows.
I first knocked out the penny sized blank plugs from behind. You
might be able to do that without dismantling the assembly, if you can
come in through the grease hole in the pin with a long solid metal
rod, maybe a nail. Would not suggest doing anything there with a
drill that would leave behind metal shavings for obvious reasons.
With the plugs out, I replaced them with a 1/4" flanged nuts,
available at decent hardware stores. They are hex nuts with a flat
washer-like flange on one side. I had hoped to find a grease zerks
with the same threads as the nuts, so they would just screw in for
fitting. I was unable to - one was fine thread, the other coarse,
don't recall which was which. So I just bought the 1/4" press fit
grease zerks, cleaned the threads out of the nuts with a 1/4" drill,
and rapped the zerks in with a tack hammer and a piece of hardwood.
The flange on each nut fits perfectly into the counterbore in the A-
arm where the blank plug was seated. From there it was very easy to
epoxy each in with some JB Weld (or equivalent), the area having been
first solvent rag cleaned to get rid of grease. With a little
filing, blending and painting of the cured epoxy, they pretty much
dissapear. (But you now have one more thing to remember to grease.)
Using a flange nut gives the zerk something strong to bite into,
rather than trying to fit it into a drilled hole in the blank plug
itself. A plug is not very thick, not much there for a press fit or
tapped threads. Plus again, not a good practice to be creating metal
shavings down in there trying to drill and fit.
HTH
Hamondale
"hamondale" < hamondale@... > 30881
Posted on March 20, 2004 01:13 PM
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