What did you do on your jeep today - February 2018

I love red upholstery. I used mine as a table

More body work. I have the both fenders top and inners ready for Hi Build Primer.

 And I now hate a guy I have known for years. He had to go an post a photo of his beautiful CJ5 with its completely smooth firewall and now I have to have mine look like that. MORE WORK Well except for all the pull cables and such that will be going through it.

I also made up two Headlight switch knobs (I'm using two GM chevelle type headlight switches to control all my various lights.) This involved reaming out the threaded centers to fit the Triangle shaped stems the GM switches use and then cross drilling for a 8-32 set screw. I also rolled the sharp edge off the knobs so they are almost identical to original Willys knobs.

I also worked a little more on my Heater Air control Vent box. Just waiting on the Defroster vent tubing to show up hopefully tomorrow so I can finish the thing up.

Tomorrow I think I am going to pull the Front clip off and get ready to do the Filler on the Grill. And I think a bunch of cleaning up. I also need to rig up some sort of stand or table to finish the work on the Fenders I still need to PC-7 Epoxy seal all the outer seams.

Busy busy no telling when work will come calling and I'll be down to a hour or two in the evening and at least for a while two weekend days. I fear this year will be another banner year so many 60 hour weeks.

Getting ready for brake swap.  

ndnchf wrote: How do you guys add lube to the knuckles? I mean how do you do it?  I've read a zillion threads on what kind of lube to use, but I've seen very little on how to add it.  I picked up a couple tubes of John Deere Corn Head grease.  I was thinking I'd just use my grease gun with the zerk coupler removed, and stick the end into the filler hole and pump away.  I saw somewhere that Sean said it takes 8 ounces per knuckle.  Maybe I'm overthinking it, but looking to hear what works for you. Thanks Steve

I used JD corn head grease. Emptied the tube into a zip lock bag. Cut the corner off and squeezed it into the plug hole like I was frosting a cake. It was really messy and hard to get it all the way in. Using a grease gun might allow you to get it further into the knuckle. 

Here's another way I could try. It's like a big syringe for sucking old oil from the bottom of the oil filter canister. Pull the handle and it sucks oil out, push it and it squirts out. I don't know how it would work with pudding. Anybody tried this?

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My arm aches just thinking about this!  I may try the syringe/injector thing.  I can take it apart to clean out the old oil and fill it with pudding.  So long as the pudding is warm, I think it will flow. I've used this thing a couple times and it works quite well.  I wonder if the corn head grease tube would fit right in it, just like the grease gun.... I need to check on that.

It sounds like there used regular bearing grease that is too thick for the knuckle.