I did this as described and I was able to get grease to more areas for sure.
Thanks for the additional tip, I will try that too before this weekends
journey.
Gordie
> <<<snip>>>
> You can increase your odds of achieving this unlikely event by first
> placing a floor jack under the suspension arm, directly under the coil
> spring, and lifting the wheel off the floor. This unloads all of the
> suspension joints except the inner lower a-arm pivot points.
> Then when you
> inject the grease there's no (or very little) mechanical load on the
> joints, so it's more likely for the grease to find an easy
> flow route in
> all directions at once. Subjectively I believe this will
> increase your
> odds of success from around 5% to about 25% for any one
> joint, but your
> odds of success on four consecutive locations will still be
> in the single
> digits.
> <<<snip>>>
>
> That's just the process I submitted to MGA! two years ago
> which was never
> printed. In fact I also suggested that after giving the
> joints a couple of
> shots that the suspension be partiall lowered so the tire and
> hub are being
> supported a little bit by the ground and giving it a little
> more grease. The
> idea being to shift the thrust on the threaded spindles to
> help get grease into
> all areas.
>
> Blake
>
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