I'm at a loss here. Nobody reply to Ben, it obviously freaks him out somehow. Goodbye Ben, take it easy.
Only interested when you reply quoting to my posts.
You just need a grease gun and some good grease. A couple of the zerk fittings can be a challenge to get to and someone on here suggested a certain grease gun fitting that made it easier. Or Roky suggests right angle zerks which worked for me.
Something like these two? I’m pretty new at this so pardon the stupid questions.
Engineering degrees are overrated. I mean, theyre not easy to get. At all, pretty hard actually. But the trade of engineering is vastly different from academia engineering.
Yea, I'm not discounting the education people have gotten, it's definitely not easy and it's admirable that they went through the time and cost to get those achievements. But I work with, and have worked with engineers every day for over 30 years now. Some of them are brilliant, those are the guys who go on to become inventors and scientists. One brilliant guy invents a product or the concept of a product, an army of engineers helps him make his idea a reality. I've met a couple of truly gifted people in aviation, people responsible for the creation of some very good aircraft, some who broke the mold and innovated the whole concept of aviation, they are not all engineers, a couple of them have no degrees at all. For every brilliant engineer I've met I've met dozens that can do the math but that's it, those people will never go on to actually create something, they just run numbers for people who do. As much as people don't want to see the writing on the wall, engineering is going to become a dead end field someday, the market is oversaturated and flooded even more every year. What some are figuring out, and my company surely is starting to get it, is that a high schooler with a laptop can make a dozen engineers obsolete, it's 90% math, and what do computers do best, math. My company hires EE's at $18 an hour to observe tests and write down numbers, they don't even interpret the data, just write it down and plug it into a spreadsheet. And they are happy to have the work, even at that rate, because there's so many people running around with EE degrees, and being imported from other countries, that there isn't enough work to go around. We've also got engineers taking jobs in aviation maintenance, because there aren't enough engineering jobs around, and quite frankly the maintenance fields pay much better because it such a specialized field. I was headed down the EE path, it's a logical move from decades of working aviation avionics and then I took a step back and realized that the money and future just isn't there, management is far more lucrative, and I have to say that my retirement fund agrees with that decision. I respect peoples engineering degrees, I just don't think the world revolves around them.
I wouldn't waste money on the "lockNlube" gizmo unless you have some other things to grease as well. The fittings on the RK kits can be a little tricky to get on because of tight clearances and that thing looks bulky. This gizmo works wonders attached to a grease gun:
Another thing about the Mopar control arms, they are hollow, they have great longitudinal strength but bring one down hard (laterally) on a rock and watch it fold like a taco. It took aftermarket companies to recognize that critical shortcoming and design something that could withstand the level of abuse a lot of us put our Jeeps through.
Thanks! That grease gun would work though, yes? Can’t wait to be squirting lube everywhere
Yea, that one should be fine, the 90 degree adaptor just threads on where the straight fitting normally goes. The joints are close tolerance, it doesn't take much grease at all, so go easy. And most importantly have fun!Thanks! That grease gun would work though, yes? Can’t wait to be squirting lube everywhere
Appreciate the advice/insight! One always has a good time with lube... one has a better time when there’s a female involved though
