GREASING AND OILING.

Putaruru Press, Volume IV, Issue 145, 12 August 1926, Page 7

GREASING AND OILING.

SHOULD BE DONE ACCORDING ! TO PROGRAMME. So reliable is the modern car that ’ its owner and driver is likely to neglect it. If underlubrication of any chassis details were immediately made evident by loud and prolonged squeaking from the parts affected they would be lubricated more often. As it is, many minor but nevertheless important parts only get their ration of grease or oil at rare intervals, when the motorist, having half an hour to | spare, bethinks him of his grease gun j or oil can. Shackle bolts, rear axle bearings, steering gear and fan bear- j ings are the most frequent sufferers, ] but those which are really starved of \ lubricant are those, ofttimes hidden j below the floor boards, on the brake j cross shafts or at the forward end of the torque tube. Usually the proud possessor of a new car will diligently j go the rounds, grease gun in hand, at j least as often as instructed to in'the j handbook found .in the tool kit. But j as the freshness wears off, and the j njud and dust of travel accumulate in those ungetatable places beneath the chassis and behind the wheels, so will the owner’s enthusiasm wane, and at length the work will be performed at irregular intervals often several hundreds of miles apart. Now- all this is not as it should be. A serious, effort should be made to. keep the times of greasing regular! and frequent. A good plan is to do ! the work in sections. For instance, one time the front spring shackle bolts and the steering connections should be dealt with. On the next occasion the rear shackles and axle bearings should be greased. Yet again, it is the turn of the universal joints and brake - operating mechanism. Thus subdivided, five or ten minutes once a week (except of course when on tour) will be spent on greasing and oiling.