Volvo Stern Gland Grease

[AllanG]

It is probably relevant if you are offering advice and have the quantities significantly wrong... Watch out next time you have to take any medication

Don't know where you get that a sugar cubed quantity of grease is significantly wrong....but, hey ho, you appear to be always right. Perhaps you should increase your medication. :encouragement:

 

[2copplane]

The beauty of the straw is that it only uses a small amount of grease and that it reaches the right spots. A syringe, or anything mechanical would be too thick and risk stretching or damaging the seal. Straws have been used for years. When you have finished there might be the slighest sign of grease under the seal on the shaft - more than this is not needed or desirable. Cheers, Andrew

I use a syringe with a bit of a straw on the end, which allows me to accurately administer 0.5sugar cube (SI conversion 1cc).

 

[l'escargot]

Don't know where you get that a sugar cubed quantity of grease is significantly wrong....but, hey ho, you appear to be always right. Perhaps you should increase your medication. :encouragement:

Measure out a ml and see for yourself, but don't get offended if I never ask you to check any levels on my engine. I really wouldn't trust anyone who gauges quantities by sugar cubes...

 

[rotrax]

Measure out a ml and see for yourself, but don't get offended if I never ask you to check any levels on my engine. I really wouldn't trust anyone who gauges quantities by sugar cubes...

Anyone got change for a teabag?

 

[l'escargot]

Anyone got change for a teabag?

How many do you need to top up your oil level? :encouragement:

 

[2copplane]

I think they might be getting their cc's and ml's mixed up. The average medicine spoon holds 5ml. That is a lot less than 5 cubes of sugar - a sugar cube is usually regarded as half a teaspoon....

For the avoidance of doubt, and anyone whose education predates metric measures and SI units then 1ml = 1cc so cannot really be mixed up.

 

[reeac]

I think that the quantity of gease administered may be important. Once I had some difficulty in burping the stern gland and only managed it by rotating the prop shaft a bit at a time between attempts. My theory was that I'd overdone the greasing and the grease was obstructing the exitting of the air. Regarding choice of straw I've found that the typical narrow straws as found in supermarkets are too incompressible and hold too little grease. I snaffled my present straw during a hospital visit - good old NHS.

 

[ghostlymoron]

For the avoidance of doubt, and anyone whose education predates metric measures and SI units then 1ml = 1cc so cannot really be mixed up.

I would think that a sugar cube is roughly 1cm x 1 cm x 1cm in other words 1 cubic centimetre or 1 millilitre. I didn't realise that you could lubricate volvo seals with sugar.

 

[chrisclin]

I get mine on line from key part with free delivery.
Not bought any for a while though found theirs the cheapest at the time.

May be cheap with free delivery. Costs £8.28 off their website!
Anyone else got a source? Do chandlers carry it?