Split Radius Arm Grease Tubes
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Are no more for me

I managed to get just under 1kg of grease out of a pair of radius arms and both plastic grease tubes were split. Common problem I am led to believe. Not any more! I have fitted some metal grease tubes that came with a Quinten Hazel New Old Stock kit which must date from the late 70's or early 80's. The tubes were a nice hammer fit so there is zero chance of any grease making its way into the radius arm ever again, and the needle roller will at last finaly get lubricated properly!! Hurrah :) I don't have to replace the bronze bushes as they are perfectly fine, Just the needle rollers. bonus!!:)

Interesting thing is that one of the radius arms came off the Wifes Mini when it was only 5 years old and around 18,000 miles, yet the grease tube was still split, so I recon pretty much every radius arm on late Minis with these plastic tubes are a little heavier than they should be

Sprocket, we did a radius arm repair session last year. So we had quite few sets of repair kits. Some tubes were allready split from new!! We threw them away and fitted the metal tubes someone over here remanufactures (not hard to do realy).

as you said: great stuff! I'm certainly never going to fit plastic tubes again... Waste of time and effort! :)

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QH (NOS), repro metal tubes and tubes from an new kit:



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Cheers,
Jan

Edited by Asphalt on 13th Feb, 2011.

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always wondered why i lost a tub of grease into my radious arms come mot time :(

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I remember a while ago heating a radius arm up to let the grease run out. I was surprised at the time how much it can hold!

shit the bed that is a lot of grease.

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Nothing is impossible it just costs more and takes longer.

thats one poor design...so to much pressure and the tube breaks and you fill your radius arms..!

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Force racing new product? Ti grease tubes?

If something is worth doing, it's worth doing half of.

That looks mucky as fuck!

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Its a bit time team how old do you think it gos to

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Nothing is impossible it just costs more and takes longer.

My refurbed ones from minisport where split from when they where on, at the time I didn't think anything of it when they took more than the usuall amount of grease, and by the time I found out about this problem it was too late to send them back.

At what temp does grease become liquified??

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Fibreglass Parts? - http://www.tdkracing.co.uk/
Split Rims? - http://www.force-racing.co.uk/

depends on the grease

Are we talking mega heat or 200deg Gas Mark 5 lol??

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Fibreglass Parts? - http://www.tdkracing.co.uk/
Split Rims? - http://www.force-racing.co.uk/

Aoven would be better as you can get the whole thing up to temperature, 200 degrees would probibly do it, but I wouldnt advise doing this in the kitchen oven! Just heat the radius arm with a gas burner evenly to soften up the grease incontact with it, then give it some sharp dunts on a block of wood, and fish out the large part of the grease by passing the spindle through its hole a few times. Repeat until you are satisfied.
Make sure you have plenty of gloves and rags before you start, and do it in the garage, as its messy as fuck

Suck it out mike

If something is worth doing, it's worth doing half of.

How much would it compromise the strength of the arm if you drilled a hole near the stub axle to blow the grease out with an airline?

My sucking skills arent as polished as yours.

On 15th Feb, 2011 John said:
Suck it out mike

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Fibreglass Parts? - http://www.tdkracing.co.uk/
Split Rims? - http://www.force-racing.co.uk/

Get some practice then.

If something is worth doing, it's worth doing half of.

You could probably work something out with a bit of plaggy pipe and an airline/pressure washer.

Looks like a good use for a can of expanding PU foam.

Good post there, i didn't know that.

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On 13th Feb, 2011 Asphalt said:

And most interesting...



Cheers,
Jan

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