Tire hammer lubrication?

Will52100

Will52100

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I've got a 50 pound tire hammer I bought several years ago and it's been a champ. The lead ballast in the head came loose and I took it down and fixed it.

Before going back together I got to thinking about lubrication. I normally give everything a good shot of silicon lube and it's been working well for several years. But I've been thinking of adding grease fittings to the toggle arms, rite now all they have is an oil hole. I'd still use silicon on the plastic ram guides though. The toggle arms have bronze bushings, and just a little slack. I'm not worried about lubrication as much as a little cushion.

Or just put it back together and continue on as before?

Thoughts?
 
Whether it's worth the time and effort to install zerks is debatable. Bronze bushings that ride on steel pins, when you say "just a little slack" do you mean the fit between the bushing and pin has opened up? Grease wouldn't provide any cushion, it will just be squeezed out. If it's an oilite bronze bushing, I would just keep them oiled, but with something heavier than silicon spray lube. Say DTE 25 or something like that.
 
Fwiw,
On machines with Dupont mechanism, Little Giant, Berkley, et.al.
If the toggles, guides, etc, dont have oil literally dribbling off, it needs oil.
Yes, its messy but, Oil is cheaper than parts & downtime.

I imagine on a "Tyre Hammer" it may have ballbearing journals & maybe 'poly guides, but its links are probably something what needs similar oiling.

We use chainsaw bar oil on our LGs. Being so sticky & thick seems to work well on a total loss lube system.
 
Thanks, I've decided since I've got it down to go ahead and put zerks on it. The ram guid has the high density dead dinosaur plates, the pitman has a pillow block ball bearing, the toggle arms are just a steel pin with bronze bushings. There is an oil hole, but no cup or any way to make sure it's awash in oil. The manual suggest teflon or silicon spray for everything but the pitman arm. There's not a lot of slack, and maybe no more than was there when it was built, but since I didn't build it I don't know. Part of my thinking for going to grease is to keep lube on the pins where silicon or oil will run off.
 
chainsaw bar oil on our LG with a extra grease zerk installed on the clutch collar..If it aint slinging oil on the ceiling it aint got enough oil..
 
What lube to use in my tire hammer
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Go to an auto repair place and ask if they have any lube left over from changing the oil in head lights. I find that about right.

Kiddding, kidding

When you said tire hammer I pictured one of those billies that truckers thump their tires with.
I think I got too much sleep. That is never a good thing for me to do before I go socializing
carry on . . .
 
Sure you don't mean blinker fluid?

I don't know if I want to put bar oil on my hammer, the only bar oil I've ever used is burnt/used motor oil...
 
No, I buy brand new chain and bar oil for chainsaws. Its much thicker and stickier than regular oil. I know what you mean though, Ive used "used" oil in my saw plenty of times..For the hammer buy new "Bar & Chain" oil..
 
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