Re: Congealed grease

[Wayne Stewart <waynes@intergate.ca>]

Quadrajet1 wrote:

 
>    I musta did a couple hundred of them drives many years ago when I had my own
> shop.  What I always did was take a heat gun to the areas where the grease was
> and heat up the goo to make it soft again.  Then I'd take the acetone and
> Q-tips to it and get as much as I could out.  Then I'd use a thick oil and work
> it into the mechanism while it was still pretty warm.  I'd work the mechansim
> many times to get the oil into all the nooks where the old grease was.  never
> had one come back after that.

Good idea, I should have thought of heating up the area. 
Now where did I put my tiger torch?

Wayne