The importance of grease

Michael Bayer · Post by **Michael Bayer** » Sat Dec 01, 2007 7:21 pm

Tom: While you showed the Gang your throttle linkage which looks terrific, you did not show us the flourish on the end of your choke cable, which dazzled Mike and me at Bill Pollards.

Post by **tyang** » Sat Dec 01, 2007 7:59 pm

Hi Michael,

It's not only pretty, but I'm told by Francois, Factory correct!

Tom

Rudy van Daalen Wetters · Sat Dec 01, 2007 9:55 pm

I am bedazzled. I don't know how many times I have stabbed myself on the end of one of those cables!

Rudy van Daalen Wetters
1963 GTE s/n 4001
1966 330 GT s/n 8705

Post by **tyang** » Sat Dec 01, 2007 10:40 pm

I am bedazzled. I don't know how many times I have stabbed myself on the end of one of those cables!

Form and function!

Tom

motob · Post by **motob** » Sun Dec 02, 2007 3:41 am

The throttle return spring and its mounting bracket should also be black oxide.

Post by **tyang** » Sun Dec 02, 2007 9:38 am

The throttle return spring and its mounting bracket should also be black oxide.

Hi Motob,

I forgot to include it in the batch, but I'll get it coated next time!

Tom

TOMKIZER · Post by **TOMKIZER** » Sun Dec 02, 2007 4:46 pm

tyang wrote:
The throttle return spring and its mounting bracket should also be black oxide.
Hi Motob,

I forgot to include it in the batch, but I'll get it coated next time!

Tom

Tom,
You don't have to "get it coated next time!" You can just go to a sporting goods shop that sells guns or a gun shop and buy a tube of Perma Blue made by Birchwood Casey. It's a selenium dioxide paste for bluing guns. (gun blue isn't blue - it's black oxide). It may not be quite as durable as a "HOT black oxide" treatment, but for parts that stay oily anyway and aren't handled, it will do the trick. It's a lot cheaper and you don't have to wait for the parts to come back. Just degrease the parts, rinse with water, wipe dry, and rub on some selenium dioxide paste with a cotton ball. Wait 30 seconds and wipe it off, rinse with water and wipe the parts with an oiled cloth. Done! A 56 gram tube cost me about $8.00 and there's just about enough in one tube for all the linkage parts.
I bought it for two hub puller pull pins that came without black oxide and a turn bar that I had to have made (the original turn bar was missing). It works like a charm, but will not work on aluminum, stainless steel, or non-ferrous metals.
Tom Kizer

kare · Post by **kare** » Sun Dec 02, 2007 8:28 pm

tyang wrote:It's not only pretty, but I'm told by Francois, Factory correct!

My cables - which were redone at the factory in 1967 - have triangle shaped cable endings!

william · Post by **william** » Mon Dec 03, 2007 12:34 pm

Good advice by Tom Kizer.

I used the Perma Blue on the J bolts the servo looks factory, works very well.

Art S. · Post by **Art S.** » Mon Dec 03, 2007 2:10 pm

kare,

We need pictures!!!!

Regards,

Art S.

Rudy van Daalen Wetters · Mon Dec 03, 2007 2:57 pm

Yes, we need to see that it is an equilateral triangle.

Rudy van Daalen Wetters
1963 GTE s/n 4001
1966 330 GT s/n 8705

TOMKIZER · Post by **TOMKIZER** » Mon Dec 03, 2007 4:31 pm

Rudy van Daalen Wetters wrote:Yes, we need to see that it is an equilateral triangle.

Rudy van Daalen Wetters
1963 GTE s/n 4001
1966 330 GT s/n 8705

Not to get too anal, but the length of one leg of the "equilateral triangle" would be informative, if a triangle is what's recommended as being "correct".
Tom Kizer