Front passenger grease cap keeps coming off...

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Re: Front passenger grease cap keeps coming off...

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Oldiebut goodie wrote: 16 Nov 2023, 11:31 When it happened on mine I opened up the cap fractionally so that it gripped better, this was on a new one driver's side that the old one had lost its grip on. The problem is finding/making a tool with the required dimension to do this with. I turned up a piece of oak on the lathe for mine.

 
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Re: Front passenger grease cap keeps coming off...

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Oldiebut goodie wrote: 22 Mar 2025, 09:33
Oldiebut goodie wrote: 16 Nov 2023, 11:31 When it happened on mine I opened up the cap fractionally so that it gripped better, this was on a new one driver's side that the old one had lost its grip on. The problem is finding/making a tool with the required dimension to do this with. I turned up a piece of oak on the lathe for mine.


cheers, just trying to figure that with lack of lathe :D
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