From: Jon Shoop (shoop19@brick.net)
Date: Sun Aug 08 2004 - 19:40:51 PDT
My M114 hub covers had been updated.......by adding a 12 lb pop off grease
cap and a grease fitting.....be sure to drain the oil first.
Jon
----- Original Message -----
From: "Douglas B Rupp" <rupp@gnat.com>
To: "Military Vehicles Mailing List" <mil-veh@mil-veh.org>
Sent: Sunday, August 08, 2004 5:59 PM
Subject: Re: [MV] Early M548 road wheel idler arms
>
> > > The early model M548's don't have grease fittings on the road wheel
> idler
> > > arms, instead drain and fill plugs. Does anyone know what kind of oil
> they
> > > take? I suspect 30W, same as the road wheel bearings but would like
> other
> > > opinions.
> >
> > Mate you are wasting your time. They are a bad design and just like the
> > oil in the hubs, it doesn't want to stay in there. There is a
> > mod out to convert them to grease nipples as was done with the hubs.
>
> Yes I know that.
> However until such time as I can find the parts, instructions, and time to
> do the modification, it seems unwise not to maintain what I have now.
>
>
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