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Originally Posted by Richard Coutts-Smith
Can anyone tell me how to get oil into the outside tracta unit for each wheel? Inside unit has its own fill plug, outside unit appears sealed.
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Rich the outer one should be a lubrication nipple on the tracta housing but on the other side to the inner one. The technique is to remove the inner plug & inject the oil through the outer nipple. If you top up each end there could be an air lock. So keep pumping oil in it may take a while but oil should flow out through the inner hole.
It's all rather awkward lying under there pumping & making sure the oil pump feed is still on the nipple, then suddenly oil whooshes out onto your stomach. If this is preceded with a belch from the housing you know you have displaced air.
So often these joints get neglected & often you can see that grease has been injected instead of oil, as it has been assumed to have been a 'grease' nipple.