Greasing pivot pins?
Quote from Reloader on November 4, 2010, 6:25 pmWhat is the correct way to grease the pivot pins on my XL650?
Is it necessary to disassemble and remove the pivot pins in order to grease them? There are two holes drilled into the casting that seem to give access to the pivot pins. Are these holes there to allow a few drops of oil to seep onto the pivot pins?
Thanks,
Gary
What is the correct way to grease the pivot pins on my XL650?
Is it necessary to disassemble and remove the pivot pins in order to grease them? There are two holes drilled into the casting that seem to give access to the pivot pins. Are these holes there to allow a few drops of oil to seep onto the pivot pins?
Thanks,
Gary
Quote from Reloader on November 5, 2010, 2:15 pmThese are indeed lube holes. There is another hole located in the machine frame above the upper pivot pin to the left of the front frame strut as well. Do not use oil. Use grease to lube the pivot pins. Use a needle fitting on a grease gun, as for greasing a motorcycle, to inject grease through these holes.
These are indeed lube holes. There is another hole located in the machine frame above the upper pivot pin to the left of the front frame strut as well. Do not use oil. Use grease to lube the pivot pins. Use a needle fitting on a grease gun, as for greasing a motorcycle, to inject grease through these holes.
Quote from Reloader on November 6, 2010, 5:23 pmGo to a Chain Saw Shop, they have a small hand held greese gun, just place it on the hole, and push down to greese the pins, greatest thing since butter, George.
Go to a Chain Saw Shop, they have a small hand held greese gun, just place it on the hole, and push down to greese the pins, greatest thing since butter, George.
Quote from Reloader on November 7, 2010, 3:24 pmFor those of us that have older model XL650s Dillon sells an upgrade kit to get the fancy grease fittings. Dillon should put the upgrade kit one the web and/or in a Blue Press every once in a while. The upgrade kit tighten the loader back up. I had been saving two old grease guns, must have been for just this reason. I will have to go check out the chain saw shop, not sure if they have one of those in Tucson, for a small grease gun. I would love to have some space back.
For those of us that have older model XL650s Dillon sells an upgrade kit to get the fancy grease fittings. Dillon should put the upgrade kit one the web and/or in a Blue Press every once in a while. The upgrade kit tighten the loader back up. I had been saving two old grease guns, must have been for just this reason. I will have to go check out the chain saw shop, not sure if they have one of those in Tucson, for a small grease gun. I would love to have some space back.
Quote from Reloader on December 23, 2010, 2:20 amJeez, NOW you tell me! I checked the manual and it says squat about greasing the pivot pins. I have always used straight 30 wt oil and lots of it. Now I see " don't use oil." Ok, I'll grease the pins. Oil worked for over 70, 000 rounds. I figure this is something you guys have learned over time after I got my machine. Grease it is. Love the machine by the way.
Jeez, NOW you tell me! I checked the manual and it says squat about greasing the pivot pins. I have always used straight 30 wt oil and lots of it. Now I see " don't use oil." Ok, I'll grease the pins. Oil worked for over 70, 000 rounds. I figure this is something you guys have learned over time after I got my machine. Grease it is. Love the machine by the way.
Quote from Reloader on January 15, 2011, 2:39 amI agree that as good as my experience with Dillon Customer Service has been that they have really been lacking on information concerning maintenance and troubleshooting the XL650. I am big on proberly maintaining all of my possessions, and am very surprised and dissapointed that there is not a list of maintenance steps to be done monthly or per X number of rounds.
I load more than the average reloader and average around 20,000 rounds a month and depending on orders sometimes up to 125,000 in a month's time. As you can imagine, maintenance becomes a bit more important and necessary when you are loading this kind of quantity. It is also important because I cannot afford for my machine to go down. I feel pretty stupid having to call customer service and ask what the proper way to grease the pivot points is because I know it can't be having to tear the whole thing down.
Come on Dillon, Holidays are over and it's time to get back to work!!
I agree that as good as my experience with Dillon Customer Service has been that they have really been lacking on information concerning maintenance and troubleshooting the XL650. I am big on proberly maintaining all of my possessions, and am very surprised and dissapointed that there is not a list of maintenance steps to be done monthly or per X number of rounds.
I load more than the average reloader and average around 20,000 rounds a month and depending on orders sometimes up to 125,000 in a month's time. As you can imagine, maintenance becomes a bit more important and necessary when you are loading this kind of quantity. It is also important because I cannot afford for my machine to go down. I feel pretty stupid having to call customer service and ask what the proper way to grease the pivot points is because I know it can't be having to tear the whole thing down.
Come on Dillon, Holidays are over and it's time to get back to work!!
Quote from Reloader on August 11, 2011, 12:52 amGrease?
Damn. My old manual says 30 weight motor oil and my 1992-93ish
XL 650 dont' have no grease fittings that I'm aware of.I need to go back to the garage and look see now.
Okay, just back from the garage.
Nope ,no grease holes anywhere on the various pins or clevis points.
For that matter no holes at all as mentioned by Dillon above.I guess my old model is just spray and pray as there are no holes to drop
oil or much less grease in.Mine really doesn't have all that much use on it. I only used it for a couple years or so after I bought it in 92-93 and only started reloading again last week.
so nothing wore out yet.It would be nice to see a comprehensive listing of all the changes over the years. IT sounds to me like a good number of upgrades have occured since 93 and I'm just now piece mealing some together.
My fault I suppose for not being involved in reloading/shooting since 95.
Grease?
Damn. My old manual says 30 weight motor oil and my 1992-93ish
XL 650 dont' have no grease fittings that I'm aware of.
I need to go back to the garage and look see now.
Okay, just back from the garage.
Nope ,no grease holes anywhere on the various pins or clevis points.
For that matter no holes at all as mentioned by Dillon above.
I guess my old model is just spray and pray as there are no holes to drop
oil or much less grease in.
Mine really doesn't have all that much use on it. I only used it for a couple years or so after I bought it in 92-93 and only started reloading again last week.
so nothing wore out yet.
It would be nice to see a comprehensive listing of all the changes over the years. IT sounds to me like a good number of upgrades have occured since 93 and I'm just now piece mealing some together.
My fault I suppose for not being involved in reloading/shooting since 95.
Quote from Reloader on August 28, 2011, 6:08 pmThis seems to be a repeated topic of discussion. When I first started using my 650 I had the same questions. The manual has two small paragraphs with little info. I have read several older posts in which the great Dillon folks have explained the cleaning and maintenance requirements. I even printed those out for reference when I clean and lube the 650.
Maybe its time to use the excellent computer graphics Dillon has to make a one or two page PDF file on how to clean and lube the 650.
This seems to be a repeated topic of discussion. When I first started using my 650 I had the same questions. The manual has two small paragraphs with little info. I have read several older posts in which the great Dillon folks have explained the cleaning and maintenance requirements. I even printed those out for reference when I clean and lube the 650.
Maybe its time to use the excellent computer graphics Dillon has to make a one or two page PDF file on how to clean and lube the 650.