How much grease does the Radius Arm take? I'm pumping and pumping and the grease is disappearing from my grease gun. it says stop when you see grease coming from the back bush......but nothings coming out! Is the radius arm hollow or something.
Any thoughts?
It does not take a lot, the radius arm is hollow, there should be a nylon sleve inside which stops the grease going into the hollow, this is probably damaged & the grease is going into the hollow, just keep pumping it in untill you see it come out the back side, it will probably take about 500ml of grease to fill the arm if the sleve is damaged but it will come out eventualy.
Well I'm almost at 500ml so not far to go now then!.......Need to get another tube then for the other side!
Cheers
there is a plastic or metal sleve inside, depending on year, & a rubber seal, quite common for the grease to get past them, I had a brand new mini in 1993, it had same prob, I greased it as soon as I got it & one arm took about 500ml, other was ok,
Steve,
Well the radius arms on my niece's 98' Paul Smith LE were full of water, it took a good 500ml each side to pump out the water and fill with grease. Seems like there was no grease from new?
The good news is once it's filled with grease, when you come to regrease in around 3,000 miles or so, it doesn't need so much.
All the best,
Taffy
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