oil and grease maintainance question

[SwissSteve]

I know oil and greesing will set me up for a few funnies with this posting but I will ask it any way :-)

Not owning a greese gun I have have as yet done no regular greesing on the car. On. The stag are there any parts that need to be regularly greased?

I remember my father in the 70ns was regularly greesing parts of the car and also packing greese into wheel bearings etc.

Is this something I should be doing and what are the places where I should be applying it

[jleyton]

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Hi Steve,

I thought I knew the answer to this but, as I couldn't remember for sure, I thought I'd check in the workshop manual.

There I found the very helpful comment: "lubricate all grease points, except hubs" - Great !!

There is certainly a requirement to grease the steering rack, but it isn't fitted with a grease nipple :?:?- there is a small (7/16"AF??) bolt that you remove and replace with a grease nipple for a maximum of 5 strokes of the gun. On top of that, the only other ones I can think of are on the U/Js.

I suspect as the day goes on others will come on here to add their bits

Cheers

Julian

[DJT]

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As per Julian's reply. The Stag was introduced when greasing was becoming old-fashioned. There are 6 Universal Joints in the driveline two each in the propshaft and the driveshafts. These may have grease nipples, or they may be 'sealed-for-life'. The only way to find out is to get undereath and look. The outer driveshaft U/Js cannot be greased in-situ because the U/J is framed by the suspension arm. If SFL then no problem. If grease nipples are fitted, then remove the wheel, brake drum and 6 hub securing nuts and withdraw the outer shaft assembly through the suspension arm. Doing this gives access to grease the U/J and also the sliding pline. If the outer U/J is SFL, then the inner end of the driveshaft can be removed from the diff and withdrawn to grease the sliding spline without disturbing the outer assembly.

That leaves the steering rack as mentioned. This is often overlooked as the grease nipple is only fitted to grease it, then removed again.

There is a U/J type knuckle in the steering shaft, close to the dipstick on RH-drive cars. This needs a drop of oil from time-to-time to prevent it seizing up. You should also drop some oil onto the top swivels of the front struts. Remove the rubber plugs and squirt some around the top nut. Most of the rubber plugs (if fitted) have a small hole in them for this purpose.

Dave

[SwissSteve]

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Brilliant feedback, thx.

I oiled the front suspension turrots recently and that solved an annoying groan I used to get on the left side.

Will check the others you mentioned.ÃŽ need to purchase a grease gun and some grease. regarding the grease nipple are they easy to come by?

[StagnJag]

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If you take out the drivesahfts as per DJT's reply, be very careful doing up the nuts again afterwards, the studs are really easy to pull out of the suspension arms. Torque wrench is essential and work your way around gradually increasing the torque until you get to the value in the ROM. (16lbf of the top of my head - but check the ROM first!)

Rgds

Dave

[jleyton]

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SwissSteve wrote:

regarding the grease nipple are they easy to come by?

Yep, got mine from Rimmers.

[brian0443]

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SwissSteve wrote:

regarding the grease nipple are they easy to come by?

See this thread http://stagownersclub.mywowbb.com/vi...=grease+nipple

And I can confirm that the angled one makes life easier.

Brian

[martin]

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SwissSteve wrote:

Brilliant feedback, thx.

I oiled the front suspension turrots recently and that solved an annoying groan I used to get on the left side.  

Will check the others you mentioned.  Î need to purchase a grease gun and some grease.  regarding the grease nipple are they easy to come by?

Mine used to have a groaning on the left side but I wouldn't have dared to grease her !
If it were me, I would leave the outer u/js, I don't think it worth the risk of pulling the hub studs out, it then becomes a major job.
Jack the back up and leave the wheels free to turn, and look very closely with a bright light, sometimes the grease nipples are replaced with a grub screw and these are very difficult to see. If you're going the whole hog, disconnect both handbrake cables, pull one end until the other has almost disappeared and smear it with lots of grease, then pull the opposite way and repeat, also load both yokes with grease. Enjoy ! Martin.