Re: White grease ??

Posted by Tim Cole On 2014/1/4 8:35:50

The Lubriplate 105 is thin enough to avoid that problem. If the motor is to be started immediately then the pump need only be primed with oil, but if it is going to sit the grease is fine. It doesn't have to be packed, only primed with lube and turned by hand to push the excess through the output side.

On the Senior Packard Eights this is not necessary because the pump in submerged in oil. Only when Packard moved the pump above the oil level did they start having oil pump problems. Another case of engineering displacing common sense and ahead of its time. Today that is the rule rather than the exception.