Originally Posted by
Kittywolf13
im curious though how does greasing the outside of the motor help the inside??
Where did you put the oil?
Where Joe's referring to is in the "grease tubes" - see the pic. (Sorry about the absolutely disgusting FW. It's been sitting waiting for a cleanup, but it's a repainter, so it's taken a backseat. It was disassembled completely tonight, and I'm going to pick up some stripper for it tomorrow, so it won't ever look like that again.)
If you used oil to just shine up the motor, like the rest of the machine, it's completely fine. The grease tubes should have grease in them.
And yes, if you were really worried, you could open the motor without frying anything, including yourself, but a few drops into those grease holes (there are 2 of them btw) shouldn't hurt anything.
The grease tubes end at a bearing or a shaft inside the motor. (depends on which of the grease tubes we're talking about)
They supply a little grease, slowly, to that bearing or shaft so that when it gets warm from rotation and friction, it doesn't burn up (not fire like, just discolored and melty for the things around it) or seize.