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<p><font face="Times New Roman, Times, serif">Zerk is the American
term for grease nipple as Steven says. Americans use quaint
language just to confuse people who use more correct English!!</font><br>
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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 12/05/2020 8:57 pm, Steven Dibdin
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<pre class="moz-quote-pre" wrap="">Also known as a grease nipple.
Sent from a small screen, please excuse any typos.
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<pre class="moz-quote-pre" wrap="">On May 12, 2020, at 06:42, Alan Francis via Rovernet <a class="moz-txt-link-rfc2396E" href="mailto:rovernet@rovernet.org"><rovernet@rovernet.org></a> wrote:
Forgive my ignorance whats a "zerk"
Regards
Alan
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<pre class="moz-quote-pre" wrap="">On Mon, May 11, 2020 at 4:21 PM Gordon Reddy via Rovernet <
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Wow!, Thank you hugely Lance, I would never of thought of that.
Gord
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Subject: Re: [Rovernet] Of zerks and things which go bump in the night;
spastic 'pumpkin' redux
Coongrats, Lance, Good to hear! Take care, Garrett
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<pre class="moz-quote-pre" wrap="">Nice story Lance. And think how much extra stuff you’ve learned along the
way!
Your first sentence is pretty much my first rule of life.
Yours
Vern
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Note to self: the more I know, the more I know what I don't know------
Several weeks ago I put out an SOS about my bumping, swaying, and
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<pre class="moz-quote-pre" wrap="">grinding differential (sounds just like a burlesque show!). I wanted to
thank everyone once again for all their input/words as wisdom. I
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<pre class="moz-quote-pre" wrap="">imparting my newfound wisdom on this project might be helpful for anyone
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After checking all of the half-shaft u-joints (installed less than 500
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<pre class="moz-quote-pre" wrap="">miles ago), and then dropping that dastardly pumpkin out of the rear end
without killing myself, I proceed to split the casings in hopes of
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<pre class="moz-quote-pre" wrap="">the culprit. The only good news was that the crown gear and all other
internals were in perfect shape. Propeller shaft u-joints; check. Rear
wheel bearings; check. Vegemite in both glove boxes; check.
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After much gnashing of teeth, I brought in another, far more sagacious,
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<pre class="moz-quote-pre" wrap="">set of eyes. What he discovered was I had installed the driver's side
u-joint for the end of the half-shaft which bolts to the brake disc,
BACKWARDS!!!! I was gobsmacked to realize one could even install a
u-joint backwards. As it turns out, the correct Spicer u-joints for the
half-shafts (5-178-x) have zerks, and for the Rover application those
zerks
have to face AWAY from the discs, because the clearance of the 'ears' on
the half shaft is greater that the clearance of the ears on the plate
which
bolts to the disc. Placing the zerk towards the disc results in the
binding of the zerk with rotation of the wheel/half-shaft!!!!
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