CHASSIS LUBRICATION

Sun (Auckland), Volume II, Issue 492, 23 October 1928, Page 7

CHASSIS LUBRICATION

SYSTEMS TO MAKE IT EASIER One has but to ask the average car owner who attends to the maintenance of his own bus whether he is of the opinion that chassis lubrication systems need simplifying, and a most decided “Yes” is the answer. This in spite of the fact that the grease gun has been brought to a high standard of efficiency during the past few years. The fault, however, does not lie with the gun itself. It is the method of application, as it were, to the chassis to

which the motorist raises objection, and the way in which the lubrication points are reached. Who. after all, in these days when the car is regarded as a necessity rather than a luxury or hobby, relishes the tasks of fillnig a gun, stooping down to each nipple on the chassis in its turn and injecting the required amount of oil? There are 30 or more nipples on the average chassis, and it is quite possible that a dozen or more are quite difficult of access. There are several ways in which

chassis lubrication on the latest cars is being made an easier and cleaner job The first is by grouping the nipples in accessible positions; the second is the adoption and use of a central lubrication system by means of which all or most of the chassis bearings can be oiled from one point. A third system is that by which a constant supply of oil is supplied to the bearings by means of wick feeds, the oil flowing by capillary action.