Ah, one more thing...when greasing the front frame head (fork races) do I just keep piling in the grease until this section of the frame is full
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Thanks for any help or advice.
That gun appears to have a nozzle Stu. The old type guns with a cone that fits over the grease nipple. If not used dead in line with the nipple, more grease escapes, than goes in the nipple. Most of my older bikes have nipples for steering bearings. The manual states use grease sparingly.Stuoyb wrote:I found a small pump type grease gun that works really well.
I got it from from my local garden centre as it is for chainsaws.
It was only a few £'s, similar to this one
https://www.toolstoday.co.uk/husqvarna- ... gKDIPD_BwE
That's exactly what I thought Stu. The nozzle depressing the nipple, instead of just pressure, like on the old type guns. Which will often fail, if the nipple ball is stuck. Even an old type gun with lever instead of just pushing often fails. More grease escaping than goes in.Stuoyb wrote:Rob, the nozzle ensures that the ball in the nipple is depressed and feeds grease in.
I wouldn't have suggested it if I hadn't first hand experience of its effectiveness.
I think the issue here is that with the fork mounted speedo, the higher mounting and nearer the frame meant that the speedo cable was at risk so a clip was specified and fitted in the headstock hole. Once the headlight mounted speedo was fitted this was no longer necessary but the frame continued to have the hole drilled and tapped, hence the totally useless grease nipple was fitted to fill it. Perhaps one of the technical specification crew had shares in a grease companyMick D wrote:Hi
The parts manual indicates that a grease nipple should be fitted to the frame so I have retained it for originality.
Regards Mick