Dry or Lube?

[Ashtree]

Amazing what a bit of spit can do!

 

[ollie989898]

Ok so that technical update failed to mention any amount of ugga duggas and I see the table is incomplete as it omits the following known lubricants:

-Weasel pish

-Ferret spunhk

-Toddler snot

-Ally never sneeze (with and without sand)


Also, how many ugga duggas can you get from your mate with a big stillsons whilst you bray the living fudge out of the the end of a tine with a sledge hammer?

 

[davidroberts30]

Ok so that technical update failed to mention any amount of ugga duggas and I see the table is incomplete as it omits the following known lubricants:

-Weasel pish

-Ferret spunhk

-Toddler snot

or monkey funky

 

[ollie989898]

or monkey funky

Best not let the wife catch you funking that munky.

 

[kiwi pom]

I used to work for an outfit running trucks 24/7 in some hard conditions resulting in quite a few wheel removals. There was a problem with nuts coming loose so the procedure was studied in detail. One of the issues was things weren't cleaned properly before reassembly. It was also decided that the washer part of the wheel nut got a squirt of WD40 to make sure it was free. All wheels then torqued to spec and a very strict retorque policy put in place with wheel nut indicators also used.
It seemed to make a big difference.
We never really had wheels on long enough to worry about them being seized up.

 

[davidroberts30]

Best not let the wife catch you funking that munky.

I still can't see on your picture where it says silicon dioxide

 

[335d]

But the tyre fitters who impress me most are those who tighten the nuts with a torque spanner.

A lot of the tyre fitters round here have a torque wrench and go round all the nuts, but they don’t actually torque them. They run them up with the gun in the highest setting, and just use the torque wrench to check that they are tighter than minimum torque, as the wrench clicks immediately when they try to tighten the nut. Wether they actually know this is another story. Ideally, they should run the nuts/bolts up with the gun at minimum, then finish off with the torque wrench, ensuring that they at least get some movement before the wrench clicks.

 

[ollie989898]

A lot of the tyre fitters round here have a torque wrench and go round all the nuts, but they don’t actually torque them. They run them up with the gun in the highest setting, and just use the torque wrench to check that they are tighter than minimum torque, as the wrench clicks immediately when they try to tighten the nut. Wether they actually know this is another story. Ideally, they should run the nuts/bolts up with the gun at minimum, then finish off with the torque wrench, ensuring that they at least get some movement before the wrench clicks.

Agreed with that. Sort of makes no sense to go around with a torque wrench if you aren't going to actually bother to torque them up??

 

[Exfarmer]

Torque settings are for dry, and will probably be too low for lubricated. If I use grease, it will not be on the threads but on the small dish on a steel wheel where the nut sits. If this is rusty it can make the nut impossible to remove without massive force.

Surely torque settings are for the strength of the stud/ bolt. Overtightening risks shearing, undertightening it will come loose. Grease makes it much easier to attain the torque , but also risks over torquing.

 

[Muddyroads]

When you click on a thread just to see how many times it went off topic

It was effectively a yes/no question!

 

[quattro]

Many years ago I remember a man who left the wheel nuts of his Massey combine in a bucket of water overnight

 

[Ffermer Bach]

Interesting thread when you get a range of views. For what it is worth, I don't believe copper grease is actually a lubricant for the technical amongst us? May be wrong.

when I worked in Denmark, we used to repair the rotary brushes used for snow clearing on the front of tractors, these needed taking apart periodically and new brush sections being fitted on the square shaft. The shaft had an circular end cap with Allan headed tapered bolts. Always covered the bolts etc with copper grease when we repaired it, as if we didn't it would have been drill, re thread job to replace, so in certain jobs copper grease is invaluable. Just pulled the sub frame off the scrap jeep, all the bolts through had seized solid, if only they had been coated with copper grease disassembly would have been simple.