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You could also try welding a large bolt on, head first, and use it as a puller as well.
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I hate being a quitter.
If the Zerk fittings could be inset in the links, they'd have a chance to survive. Not that it would be hard to make that happen, but I think that the factory left any lubrication points out of this area for a reason.
Yes, I added a Zerk to the sleeve I made, but that wasn't to provide grease to the bushings in the links, but rather to keep moisture from collecting in there by filling the void with grease.
Had I not been impatient (and thought of it earlier) I would've made a somewhat skeletonized spacer instead. Using tubing, but with four large "half holes" cut out at the ends would serve the purpose, yet couldn't trap moisture or dirt.
Unless I'm missing something, the only purpose of that spacer is to keep the links apart, and possibly also to protect the pin from being gouged.
I think it would've taken a 4-foot cheater pipe on the grease gun to get anything into the (non-existent) space between the pin and bushing in this case.The zerk fitting was not for future lubrication. It is only a way to get lube into the stuck part to free it up.
This pin challenge reminded me of the ONE EYED mechanic that worked on my Deuce with me. He was using heat to try and get a pin out of the front of a loader waaaay back in the old days. The grease inside the pin must have reached a flash point and the heat softened the grease nipple. The grease nipple exploded out of the pin, blew through his shield and took out an eye.The zerk fitting was not for future lubrication. It is only a way to get lube into the stuck part to free it up.
You have no idea how tempting it is to say "I could've told you that.". And maybe I did tell you, in a roundabout way, that it wouldn't.I followed the directions and despite trying several iterations, it didn't work.
...remove a C clip and tap the pin in far enough that the other end sticks out so I can drill out the cross drilled grease hole.