dnastrau
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Greetings:
My clean-up/tune-up of my '61 Maytag A700 is going well - albeit more slowly than I'd like. Anyhow, I have the console off, the springs disconnected and am trying to relube the damper pads...
The original felt pads look fine from what I can see - just dry. The original grease on this one was definitely petroleum based (looks like dried up wheel bearing grease.) Based on what the early books call for on the felt-type pads I am going to use a molybdenum-graphite type automotive grease on them. The trouble is - how the &*^%$@#@ do I get the grease up in there? I have the whole cabinet elevated off the floor and I have raised up the main pulley with a wood block and floor jack just until the brake package touches the base. This is what the book says to do. With this I can just see about 1/4 of the bottom of the pads if I rock the tub back in the opposite direction. There is probably about 1/8 to 1/4 of an inch of clearance between the damper cone and pads at best.
I really don't want to remove the brake package at this point. It works fine and I even added some oil to it and adjusted the stop lug as per the book. All I can think of is to use a small nylon paint brush to push the grease up in there and hope it gets to where it needs to go on the pads. What fun...
Thanks for any suggestions!
Andrew S.
My clean-up/tune-up of my '61 Maytag A700 is going well - albeit more slowly than I'd like. Anyhow, I have the console off, the springs disconnected and am trying to relube the damper pads...
The original felt pads look fine from what I can see - just dry. The original grease on this one was definitely petroleum based (looks like dried up wheel bearing grease.) Based on what the early books call for on the felt-type pads I am going to use a molybdenum-graphite type automotive grease on them. The trouble is - how the &*^%$@#@ do I get the grease up in there? I have the whole cabinet elevated off the floor and I have raised up the main pulley with a wood block and floor jack just until the brake package touches the base. This is what the book says to do. With this I can just see about 1/4 of the bottom of the pads if I rock the tub back in the opposite direction. There is probably about 1/8 to 1/4 of an inch of clearance between the damper cone and pads at best.
I really don't want to remove the brake package at this point. It works fine and I even added some oil to it and adjusted the stop lug as per the book. All I can think of is to use a small nylon paint brush to push the grease up in there and hope it gets to where it needs to go on the pads. What fun...
Thanks for any suggestions!
Andrew S.