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Subject:Re: Muffler Bearings, was RE: Friday: Best Stupid Automotive Product
From:Evan Mac Donald
Date:Sat, 24 Nov 2007 08:39:39 -0800

I also keep 100 feet of flight line in my emergency maintenance bag, right next to the half gallon can of prop wash, and 5 gallon bucket of elbow grease...

Richard Golen <rgolen@umassd.edu> wrote:
Before you use the elbow grease on the muffler bearing, go to your
local airport's malignance facility and get a quart of prop wash,
makes the job soooo much easier....if you can afford it, relative
bearing grease works much better than elbow grease.

Ric

At 10:16 AM 11/24/2007, Evan Mac Donald wrote:
>Would you use elbow grease to lube a muffler bearing... ?
>
>pdooley
wrote: Sorry, I know it's Saturday
>but regarding muffler bearings-
>
>Many car exhaust systems use a "ball joint" type connection to allow the
>exhaust to flex as the engine rocks back and forth. Since this ball joint
>allows relative motion between 2 different exhaust pieces you could in
>theory call this a bearing.