Jeff1smith
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New owner, took nose wheel pants off to inspect tire and found a zerk fitting in very front. Does it use normal auto grease?
New owner, took nose wheel pants off to inspect tire and found a zerk fitting in very front. Does it use normal auto grease?
I honestly don't know why they put a fitting there. Every year I disasemble the nose wheel assembly and clean and grease everything. I stopped filling the cavity between the bushings a few years ago because it uses soooo much grease that never goes anywhere. - We dont fill the void in our wheels between the bearings.
Now I just put a grease film on each bushing and re-assemble. When I disasemble a year latter there is still plenty of grease. I see no benifit from filling that cavety and then adding more grease with a grease gun.
I have no wear on my bushings after 500 hours flying out of a grass strip. Someone please chime-in if I am missing something.