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These poly bushings, especially OME get brittle over the years. The red grease goes hard and generally is crap
but I do mine every year. Never thought or knew to use anything else. I'll send email and ask. Lithium seems
a bit light to me?
 
Price at HomeDepot here in US. Good god! $229. I like they link it to the Lucas Red N Tacky that I think a lot of us use. But the Lincoln Electric electric grease gun is $156 Canadian at Lordco so if a person can get any kind of account reduction it’s a no brainer. Lincoln Electric wins this one. The Milwaukee is 7.7 lbs without battery! Too much.
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Price at HomeDepot here in US. Good god! $229. I like they link it to the Lucas Red N Tacky that I think a lot of us use. But the Lincoln Electric electric grease gun is $156 Canadian at Lordco so if a person can get any kind of account reduction it’s a no brainer. Lincoln Electric wins this one. The Milwaukee is 7.7 lbs without battery! Too much. View attachment 3750297
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For the amount I use it the cheap no name one I have is fine... If I used it every day then a nice name brand is probably worth it, but realistically I use it a few times a year and just do everything...
 
The air powered grease guns are pretty cheap. I could see trying that. I don't think I'd fork out even 150 for an electric one.

Most of my grease points are just one or two shots anyway

Neighbour had a couple crane trucks so I can see why he got the milwaukee.
 
I got to admit, I have a muscle separation in my right shoulder so I have issues now with the constant triggering the grease
gun, among other actions. So I need assistance. Never thought of air driven. Maybe that Lincoln Electric is air driven? Scott
has one so I've asked him about it.
 
cruiserpilot said:
These poly bushings, especially OME get brittle over the years. The red grease goes hard and generally is crap
but I do mine every year. Never thought or knew to use anything else. I'll send email and ask. Lithium seems
a bit light to me?
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To be honest, now I'm thinking about it, it's possible the warning said "synthetic" and not lithium.

Been a while since I saw it...I'll have to check. Either way, non petroleum tho.

I have some yellow lithium that's pretty thick, but between my grease guns, I know the red and tacky is in one, but I don't have a clue whats in the other 2.

I think one came with the house, and the other from my dad. Which means IF he bought it, it's the cheapest s*** he could find, and really old because I'm not sure he's ever lubed anything in his freaking life :lol:
 
Lost the cable off the side and snapped off the shear pin. But of a pain to get to.

Read online about folks upgrading them with a bolt etc, have sort of mixed feelings, obviously would rather replace a shear pin than the winch... Anyone with personal experience / suggestions for what size to replace it with or a suggested rating?

Stock looks like 5mm steel pin?
 

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I'd probably just get a few regular shear pins. Maybe some tractor pto ones that'd fit and be cheaper than whatever Toyota charges...

Wire off the side is probably a rare occurrence.

Could maybe cut 50 feet off to get it deeper in the drum if it seems like it's gonna be prone to happen a lot?
 
Looks like that shear pin did its job to perfection. I agree with seapotato just try to find a few to keep in glovebox. That looks like 150’ of wire there? What were you doing when it happened?
 
Yep agreed it did what it was supposed to. Just when i searched for part numbers I found lots of people replacing them.

It's in a quite inconvenient spot, directly on the back of the winch, which would be rather difficult to get to if properly stuck yourself. I had to pull the winch to get access to remove it.

As for what I was doing, pulling out a stuck forklift... Approx 4600kg stuck up to the axles...

Pull was a little off center and I didn't notice the cable had built up and popped off the winch
 
Toshi38 said:
It's in a quite inconvenient spot, directly on the back of the winch, which would be rather difficult to get to if properly stuck yourself. I had to pull the winch to get access to remove it.
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You might be able to monkey with your linkages and have the shear pin at a different ujoint.

Although under the truck might not easier to get to :lol:
 
seapotato said:
Lol, I have a kit sitting on my bench right now, that'll be me in a week. 😒
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Ya I've got a little checklist to fix thanks to the inspection system here....

Front brakes was one, which is my own fault I started rebuilding before the wedding then got busy with other things so I only had new brakes on one side... Fail for uneven brakes 🤣

Have a Muffler to fix also, and rear brakes had one siezed wheel cylinder so that's already done...
 
Toshi38 said:
Ya I've got a little checklist to fix thanks to the inspection system here....

Front brakes was one, which is my own fault I started rebuilding before the wedding then got busy with other things so I only had new brakes on one side... Fail for uneven brakes 🤣

Have a Muffler to fix also, and rear brakes had one siezed wheel cylinder so that's already done...
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Yeah i did my tie rods, added caster shims and new brakes, then had death wobble above 70.

Turns out my passenger side trunnions were rather ****ed.

I cheated and removed a couple shims to tighten them up, which is skeezy as ****, but it worked so well, it makes me wonder how many guys have done it but not admitted it 😂:hillbilly:
 
Not sure how much used stuff is around there where you are. The new electronic units do TIG & Mig and even calculate the power for you. Crazy. At the least get a 240V unit would be my suggestion.
 
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Not sure how much used stuff is around there where you are. The new electronic units do TIG & Mig and even calculate the power for you. Crazy. At the least get a 240V unit would be my suggestion.
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Ya, been watching the auctions for a cheap but good one, something like my old Miller 212.

Here everything is 220v, if you get a bigger one it's 400v...

To be fair this little one actually gets decent penetration on fairly heavy steel. It can pretty happily do 5mm steel in a single pass... Just not quickly
 
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