<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:georgia,serif;font-size:small;color:#000000"><span style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.7272720336914px">>They are VERY important. More axle beams die</span><br style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.7272720336914px"><span style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.7272720336914px">>from lack of lubrication than from any other cause. This is</span><br style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.7272720336914px"><span style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.7272720336914px">>especially true of the 2 upper zerks, which some people never manage</span><br style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.7272720336914px"><span style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.7272720336914px">>to find. </span><br clear="all"></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:georgia,serif;font-size:small;color:#000000"><span style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.7272720336914px"><br></span></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:georgia,serif;font-size:small;color:#000000"><span style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.7272720336914px">My '69 Axle Beam "died" from two possible causes.</span></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:georgia,serif;font-size:small;color:#000000"><span style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.7272720336914px">1.)  Being a daily driver in "Rust Belt" Wisconsin from 1969 to 1986, and </span></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:georgia,serif;font-size:small;color:#000000"><span style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.7272720336914px">2.)  (possible) lack of lubrication, in it's later years.</span></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:georgia,serif;font-size:small;color:#000000"><span style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.7272720336914px"><br></span></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:georgia,serif;font-size:small;color:#000000"><span style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.7272720336914px">Jim not only showed me the location of the upper grease zerks, but when my original Axle Beam failed last year, I had a '72 beam that Jonathon Stiles had graciously sent me that we used to build the Type 3 Base Plate for towing behind our motor home.</span></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:georgia,serif;font-size:small;color:#000000"><span style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.7272720336914px"><br></span></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:georgia,serif;font-size:small;color:#000000"><span style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.7272720336914px">And replacement of an Axle Beam is </span></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:georgia,serif;font-size:small;color:#000000"><span style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.7272720336914px">1.)  not for the "feint of heart"</span></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:georgia,serif;font-size:small;color:#000000"><span style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.7272720336914px">2.)  not for those without the mechanical skills, special tools and knowledge of the beam "internals", and</span></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:georgia,serif;font-size:small;color:#000000"><span style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.7272720336914px">3.)  not for those without "deep pockets".</span></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:georgia,serif;font-size:small;color:#000000"><span style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.7272720336914px"><br></span></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:georgia,serif;font-size:small;color:#000000"><span style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.7272720336914px">Take heed of Jim's advice.  Find all 4 of those grease zerks, and lube them regularly.</span></div><div><br></div>-- <br><div class="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div>Gary "Frito" - '69 Variant, FI, MT<br></div><div>Rockport, TX (winter)</div><div>Lake Geneva, WI (summer)</div></div></div>
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