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- From: welchb@woods.ulowell.edu
- Subject: Do I have grease fittings (or a place for them)?
- Message-ID: <1992Nov10.114807.1@woods.ulowell.edu>
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- Sender: usenet@ulowell.ulowell.edu (News manager - ulowell)
- Organization: University of Lowell
- Date: Tue, 10 Nov 1992 16:48:07 GMT
-
- (Sorry if this is in FAQ)
- How do you tell if your car is able to be greased? I.e., if you take it to a
- quicky oil change place for a complete oil and lube job, and then find
- that all they had to do is change the oil, you could do it yourself.
-
- My daughter has a '91 Plymouth Acclaim. I got out the Chiltons from the
- library which covered a lot of cars (including that one). It amazes me
- that such an erudite and supposedly complete publication does not cover
- the subject. A generation ago, every gas station had a manual near the
- lube rack, showing the (many) lubrication points; you wanted to be sure
- that your mechanic did not miss any. I understand that many cars are
- supposedly permanently or semi-permanently greased (bringing up the
- problem of whether fittings should be permanently installed).
-
- In the case of the Acclaim, under the heading of replacing the lower
- support arm, they obscurely say to grease the replaced arm. But the
- fitting does not appear in the diagram. The word "grease" does not
- appear in any index or table of contents. The word "lubrication" does
- not appear in the context of the traditional grease gun.
-
- I agree that times have changed, and a book has a right to cater to advanced
- subjects like replacing engine pistons, but IMHO they are missing part of the
- forest because of the trees.
- --
- Brendan Welch, UMass/Lowell, W1LPG, welchb@woods.ulowell.edu
-