Re: Rear leaf Spring bushing lube?

Posted by Owen_Dyneto On 2013/5/6 13:35:37

Don't recall doing anything to the leaf springs.

On the cars with Bijur, the leaf springs are wrapped with canvas under the terne-plate spring gaiters - they get oiled via runoff from the Bijur at the spring shackles. On the later springs with the antimony alloy sliding buttons, they are not supposed to be lubricated. Years back when I was a grease monkey, for simple plain leaf spring that were noisy, we had a clamping device that clamped across the spring and spread the leaves with a wedge that also had an Alemite fitting to inject grease between the leaves. Used mostly on construction equipment that lives in dirt and dust. And as I think on it now, they were probably best left alone as the grease probably just served as a trap to attract and retain the abrasive dirt.