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MG MGB Technical - Withdraw the grease retainer?

Hi guys... Help! I'm starting to grease the wheel bearings on a '68 MGB, with wire wheels. The instruction says "Withdraw the grease retainer". I expect it's the cap-like cup in the wheel hub, with a short stub, about 1/4 inch in the centre. I have pulled on this small stub but long nose pliers just won't budge it and it's too deep for my vise-grips. It looks like there's a small hole in the splined hub which appears to be blanked off by this grease retainer. (The split pin withdrawal hole perhaps?)

Can anyone tell me how to get this thing out, to gain access to the castellated nut on the stub axle.

I'm going to have a beer now, and forget my frustrations.
Thanks everyone.
R P Shoebridge

I could be having a memory lapse, but I think the internal threaded bolts that hold the rocker cover down fits the thread on the cap. Sounds strange even to me but I am sure I had some part of the car that fitted so I could pull them out.

Tony
Tony Oliver

A 1/4-28 coupling nut at the end of a threaded shaft can be threaded onto the threaded stub on the retainer, vice grips on the threaded rod and a pry bar of some kind to lever the whole mess out. Cheers - Dave
David DuBois

This not my idea. It came from an "Old Head" MG mechanic. One of the thermostat cover nuts is about an inch thick and the threads on either end of that nut are different. One end is the same size and thread as the stud on the grease cap. The other end is the same size and thread as the long bolts that secure the stock Carb air filters. Screw one end of the nut to the airfilter bolt. Screw the other end to the grease cap. Clamp on a pair of vice grips and whack it with a hammer.

Mack
M Sneed

R P if a picture is worth a thousand words then here is a mouth full. Here is the tool that I use.
Look at the next post for a further explanation.

LaVerne


LED DOWNEY

If you have an original grease cap then the threads (fine) will be the same as the stock air cleaner bolt. The long nut which I did not use here, that the others have described was used on on emission equiped cars.
If you have an after market cap ( the siver one ) it will take a course threaded nut.

LaVerne


LED DOWNEY

Thank you for all your suggestions. I'll get back into the grease shortly.
Cheers
Ray
R P Shoebridge

This thread was discussed between 11/02/2008 and 12/02/2008

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