{"id":191,"date":"2023-11-23T02:32:22","date_gmt":"2023-11-23T02:32:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/robonza.com\/beetle\/?p=191"},"modified":"2023-11-23T02:32:22","modified_gmt":"2023-11-23T02:32:22","slug":"greasing-the-beetle-front-beam","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/robonza.com\/beetle\/index.php\/2023\/11\/23\/greasing-the-beetle-front-beam\/","title":{"rendered":"Greasing the Beetle Front Beam"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I noticed some creaking when going over bumps so I consulted the Muir book, bought a grease gun and I am now creak free. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"768\" src=\"https:\/\/robonza.com\/beetle\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/IMG_8764-1024x768.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-192\" srcset=\"https:\/\/robonza.com\/beetle\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/IMG_8764-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/robonza.com\/beetle\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/IMG_8764-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/robonza.com\/beetle\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/IMG_8764-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/robonza.com\/beetle\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/IMG_8764-1536x1152.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/robonza.com\/beetle\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/IMG_8764-2048x1536.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The front beam has a zerk (grease nipple) on both of the outer sides . Attach your grease gun and pump until some grease begins to come out of the seals like in the shot below.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"768\" src=\"https:\/\/robonza.com\/beetle\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/IMG_8760-1024x768.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-193\" srcset=\"https:\/\/robonza.com\/beetle\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/IMG_8760-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/robonza.com\/beetle\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/IMG_8760-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/robonza.com\/beetle\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/IMG_8760-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/robonza.com\/beetle\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/IMG_8760-1536x1152.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/robonza.com\/beetle\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/IMG_8760-2048x1536.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">When the grease starts to come out, it will make a &#8220;pop&#8221; noise. I go a few pumps more and then cleaned everything off. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"768\" height=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/robonza.com\/beetle\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/IMG_8762-768x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-194\" srcset=\"https:\/\/robonza.com\/beetle\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/IMG_8762-768x1024.jpg 768w, https:\/\/robonza.com\/beetle\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/IMG_8762-225x300.jpg 225w, https:\/\/robonza.com\/beetle\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/IMG_8762-1152x1536.jpg 1152w, https:\/\/robonza.com\/beetle\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/IMG_8762-1536x2048.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/robonza.com\/beetle\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/IMG_8762-scaled.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 768px) 100vw, 768px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Be sure to clean the zerks off before you begin.  I got a grease gun and grease from Napa.  Be sure to get one with a flexible hose to give you the flexibility (see what I did there?) to reach the nips. The grease gun is kind of an unwieldy tool to store. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Grease gun: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.napaonline.com\/en\/p\/BK_7151230\">https:\/\/www.napaonline.com\/en\/p\/BK_7151230<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Grease: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.napaonline.com\/en\/p\/NOL75600\">https:\/\/www.napaonline.com\/en\/p\/NOL75600<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I noticed some creaking when going over bumps so I consulted the Muir book, bought a grease gun and I am now creak free&#8230;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":193,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-191","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/robonza.com\/beetle\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/191","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/robonza.com\/beetle\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/robonza.com\/beetle\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/robonza.com\/beetle\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/robonza.com\/beetle\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=191"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/robonza.com\/beetle\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/191\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":196,"href":"https:\/\/robonza.com\/beetle\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/191\/revisions\/196"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/robonza.com\/beetle\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/193"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/robonza.com\/beetle\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=191"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/robonza.com\/beetle\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=191"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/robonza.com\/beetle\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=191"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}