Mechanic's syringes

[Taka Mizutani]

Syringe needles are not going to be strong enough to be poking into
bushings- you'll
break the tip right off.

If a needle tip for a grease gun isn't going to work, you're stuck- you'll
have to install
zerk fittings on your bushing mounts.

Taka


On 1/5/07, LL - NY <larrycleung at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Thanks for the recommendations. Where I live, animal supply stuff abound.
> As
> for the turkey baster, WAY too course a tip. Trying to squeeze in between
> the bushing and sway bar. If the needle is fine enough, as Eric H (I
> believe, can't toggle browser) said, could even possibly be used for the
> rear links (although I have found when they go, the rubber boot around the
> joints is probably failing, so they're gone anyway). I'll have to look for
> the needle tip for the grease gun, although a syringe would make it
> possible
> to squirt the sway bar bushings with the car on the ground and the wheels
> turned full lock, left or right....
>
> Thanks all!
>
> LL - NY
>
> On 1/5/07, Adam A. Luy <Adam at routersinc.com> wrote:
> >
> > Two words...
> >
> > Turkey baster. Like the one I used to inject 'flavour' into the poor
> > bird's carcas that was subjected to boiling peanut oil a few Thxgivings
> ago.
> >
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: quattro-bounces at audifans.com [mailto:quattro-bounces at audifans.com]
> > On Behalf Of LL - NY
> > Sent: Thursday, January 04, 2007 7:29 PM
> > To: s-car-list at audifans.com; Q-list
> > Subject: Mechanic's syringes
> >
> > Anyone have a source for blunt tipped syringes that one could use to
> > squirt, say grease into, say the space between a sway bar bushing and
> the
> > bar itself?
> >
> > The price for the Griot's kit is a bit outrageous ($25) considering that
> I
> > only need one syringe, and I already have the "fluid" (marine grease) I
> wish
> > to inject.
> >
> > LL - NY
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