When I had your book,I remember reading that I should put grease into the handle area of a manual head>What type of grease was it?I have a Jabsco manual head.Thanks
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When I had your book,I remember reading that I should put grease into the handle area of a manual head>What type of grease was it?I have a Jabsco manual head.Thanks
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Synthetic Teflon
Paul, You want to use any synthetic teflon grease in your head. I have heard some brands mentioned here on the forum, but can't think of them right now. Doesn't really matter as you can find many of them. Your best bet is to go to a bicycle shop and ask them for it. It's pretty commonly used for bike chains, hubs, etc. I paid about $10 for a tube that was about 8-10 oz. if I remember correctly. That should last you awhile! You'll want to grease up the o-ring on the pump piston as well as the shaft seal. You'll have to take the pump apart to do this unless you have a newer Jabsco head, in which case the handle/shaft/piston assembly comes right out the top when you unscrew the cap that the handle butts up against. You'll know it by the hex shape molded into the plastic. Just unscrew it and viola!, everything you need comes right out the top. Good luck, Tim
Paul, You want to use any synthetic teflon grease in your head. I have heard some brands mentioned here on the forum, but can't think of them right now. Doesn't really matter as you can find many of them. Your best bet is to go to a bicycle shop and ask them for it. It's pretty commonly used for bike chains, hubs, etc. I paid about $10 for a tube that was about 8-10 oz. if I remember correctly. That should last you awhile! You'll want to grease up the o-ring on the pump piston as well as the shaft seal. You'll have to take the pump apart to do this unless you have a newer Jabsco head, in which case the handle/shaft/piston assembly comes right out the top when you unscrew the cap that the handle butts up against. You'll know it by the hex shape molded into the plastic. Just unscrew it and viola!, everything you need comes right out the top. Good luck, Tim
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Tim
Synthetic Teflon
Paul, You want to use any synthetic teflon grease in your head. I have heard some brands mentioned here on the forum, but can't think of them right now. Doesn't really matter as you can find many of them. Your best bet is to go to a bicycle shop and ask them for it. It's pretty commonly used for bike chains, hubs, etc. I paid about $10 for a tube that was about 8-10 oz. if I remember correctly. That should last you awhile! You'll want to grease up the o-ring on the pump piston as well as the shaft seal. You'll have to take the pump apart to do this unless you have a newer Jabsco head, in which case the handle/shaft/piston assembly comes right out the top when you unscrew the cap that the handle butts up against. You'll know it by the hex shape molded into the plastic. Just unscrew it and viola!, everything you need comes right out the top. Good luck, Tim
Paul, You want to use any synthetic teflon grease in your head. I have heard some brands mentioned here on the forum, but can't think of them right now. Doesn't really matter as you can find many of them. Your best bet is to go to a bicycle shop and ask them for it. It's pretty commonly used for bike chains, hubs, etc. I paid about $10 for a tube that was about 8-10 oz. if I remember correctly. That should last you awhile! You'll want to grease up the o-ring on the pump piston as well as the shaft seal. You'll have to take the pump apart to do this unless you have a newer Jabsco head, in which case the handle/shaft/piston assembly comes right out the top when you unscrew the cap that the handle butts up against. You'll know it by the hex shape molded into the plastic. Just unscrew it and viola!, everything you need comes right out the top. Good luck, Tim
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Get it here!
Paul: You can buy it from Amazon.com - see the attached link. Just unscrew the nut/top just under the pump handle and put in a good squeeze of the grease. You may get some residual grease into the head for a few uses - I did, but it caused no problems and went away pretty quickly. A good squeeze should last a season, but if it becomes stiff, just do it again. One tube should last a long time. I had trouble with mine being hard to pump, put this in and it works great. Peggy said to do this each spring. Somewhere in the archives recently, someone said you could find a similar product at Lowes. I have never looked there, but they might have it.
Paul: You can buy it from Amazon.com - see the attached link. Just unscrew the nut/top just under the pump handle and put in a good squeeze of the grease. You may get some residual grease into the head for a few uses - I did, but it caused no problems and went away pretty quickly. A good squeeze should last a season, but if it becomes stiff, just do it again. One tube should last a long time. I had trouble with mine being hard to pump, put this in and it works great. Peggy said to do this each spring. Somewhere in the archives recently, someone said you could find a similar product at Lowes. I have never looked there, but they might have it.
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Jerry Clark H356 SV Persistence
Get it here!
Paul: You can buy it from Amazon.com - see the attached link. Just unscrew the nut/top just under the pump handle and put in a good squeeze of the grease. You may get some residual grease into the head for a few uses - I did, but it caused no problems and went away pretty quickly. A good squeeze should last a season, but if it becomes stiff, just do it again. One tube should last a long time. I had trouble with mine being hard to pump, put this in and it works great. Peggy said to do this each spring. Somewhere in the archives recently, someone said you could find a similar product at Lowes. I have never looked there, but they might have it.
Paul: You can buy it from Amazon.com - see the attached link. Just unscrew the nut/top just under the pump handle and put in a good squeeze of the grease. You may get some residual grease into the head for a few uses - I did, but it caused no problems and went away pretty quickly. A good squeeze should last a season, but if it becomes stiff, just do it again. One tube should last a long time. I had trouble with mine being hard to pump, put this in and it works great. Peggy said to do this each spring. Somewhere in the archives recently, someone said you could find a similar product at Lowes. I have never looked there, but they might have it.
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