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Today was digging through stuff day and I found this little fella.

Is it a grease thingamajigi ??

http://i1291.photobucket.com/albums/...psph1kk9kh.jpg

http://i1291.photobucket.com/albums/...psi9wqaabf.jpg

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Yes model t era and some later water pump and throwout collars.

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Yes, Model T, hit'n'miss engines, old farm implements.... Jeff

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Also used on farm equipment and line shaft bearings. That's the first time I've seen one with a square shaft and spring to keep the cap positioned in quarter turn increments. It may have been used on some machine that had a lot of vibration. I've never heard of a cap unscrewing before from ordinary running, even on my hit and miss connection rod grease cup.

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Hay Tom, this was posted yesterday. Is this my little gadget on top?.

https://www.fordbarn.com/forum/showthread.php?t=216067

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Tom, I have run many hit & miss engines with grease cups including several with cups on the rod bearings and never had one come loose. I believe the spring device is more for service than cap retention, ie - one click every X number of hours or in ford-m's case X number of miles. Not that familiar with model A's but I have not seen it discussed or mentioned in any H&M information.

John

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Yes, it looks like it, but I'd like to see the inside of the bellhousing.
I'm wondering what that part greased?

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Clutch release bearing lubrication for 1932-34. Not sure if used on all models - 1933 4-cylinder had it for sure. One of the experts like DavidG on the EV8 forum will likely know for sure

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That's all I could imagine it was used for, but how does a stationary filling lube a sliding part?

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They connected to the throwout hub with a flexible line.

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Is there any service instructions with this installation that would verify my theory in post # 6?
For sure less vibration here than bouncing around on a rod bearing cap.


John

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Post # 1: "Is it a grease thingamajigi ?"
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The correct name is 'whatchmacallit', Latin, from the Greek "whazit", from the original Sanskrit "Dohickee".

But for our purposes, 'thingamjogi' will work. Some like to shorten the word to 'thingamajig' leaving off the last letter (i).

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Yea made my day 😁