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What price freedom? Freedom from the weekly chore of greasing a truck, that is. And the price? Around $3,000, if it comes in the form of a central automatic greasing system or “auto-greaser.” An auto-greaser is a device on the back of a truck that squirts minute amounts of grease into all the greaseable points—slack adjusters, brake components, king pins, spring pin bushings, PEACEFUL EASY FEELING: ... of knowing your truck’s greasing itself regularly. Metal Health shop talk The ABCs of auto-greasers. By Duff McCutheon fifth wheel, etc.—every couple of hours or at whatever interval you choose to set the device’s timer at. “When you’ve got one installed, it gives you the warm and fuzzy feeling that the truck is always greasing itself,” says Mike Hopper, fleet maintenance manager with Moncton, N.B.’s Armour Transport. “Speaking from a mechanic’s viewpoint, with an auto-greaser, whether you set it at every hour-and-a-half to three hours, you FOR MOREINF In Gear FOR MORE INFORMATION CONTACT: A.L.S. Vogel Ltd. Burlington, Ont. 905-631-1821 Toll-free 800-207-LUBE www.autolube.com Groeneveld North America CPL Systems Inc. Campbellville, Ont. 905-875-3206 800-263-1760 www.cplsystems.com Lubriquip Centralized Lubrication Systems Grease Jockey Cleveland, OH. 1-800-USA-LUBE www.lubriquip.com � know moving parts are getting a shot of grease. There is a nice feeling about that.” Most of them work the same: the grease sits in a canister and a spring or a plunger forces it down to a pump that sends the grease to your lines and injectors. They also feature a timer device to deliver the grease on schedule, and a metering system in the distribution manifolds to ensure each fitting gets the proper amount of grease. Slack adjusters, for example, need less grease than the fifth-wheel plate. The systems mete out the grease in amounts suitable to the application. There’re a couple of different ways of looking at ROI here. One involves money and the other involves the time you save every weekend not having to grease your truck—which isn’t necessarily a bad thing if you’re a do-it-yourselfer that enjoys getting dirty. One of the benefits of getting out the grease gun and going under is that you’re inspecting the truck on a regular basis and can catch small problems before they get big. Although there’s a big difference between greasing your truck in July and doing it in January, and you might wish you had that auto-greaser for the latter. The systems generally cost between $2,500 and $3,500. MARCH 2006 69
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