> I will be installing the new dust cap soon and wanted to lube everything. > I will remove the little screw and would slso like to lube the lower cable..... I think that the 90W gear oil is fine for the angle drive but a bit too runny to stay on the cables. I lubed my cables with white lithium grease out of a tub container. I used the end of my finger to keep pressing grease through the tube until it came out the other end. Then when I pushed in the cable, most of it came out. It was a bit wasteful maybe but very effective. Before this I bought a new lower cable from PJ Grady. This is the new short version to replace the longer one on earlier VINs. Rob said that the shorter cable would be easier on the angle drive. But on the contrary, I found that the cable was much harder to turn by hand. I used solvents to wash all the stiff grease out of the tube and replaced it with the white lithium. It now turns as freely as my original cable. Below is a cut & paste of an earlier message about lubing the angle drive. > On the bottom i see > a screw and thats it. That IS it. You take the screw out and inject your favorite oil in the hole. But you may run into problems. First you need to disconnect the lower speedo cable from the angle drive. Then you rotate the angle drive until the screw faces up. But more often than not any angle drive that I have tried to lube has the housing so stuck that it won't rotate. Be careful not to gouge/scrape it beyond recognition with pliers. It helps to protect the speedo cable threads by using a ring from an old speedometer cable to screw over it. (Common junk yard item). Then you have an expendable surface that you can grab with pliers. It helps to liberally pre-soak in your favorite penetrant oil. And then you might get lucky and the thing just rolls over and says, "oil me". My secret for getting oil in the screw hole is a broken off needle used to put air in footballs/basket balls. I jab the broken end into a tube of 90W gear oil and then put the other end in the angle drive. It helps to spin the cable going in while you "stuff" it with oil. I've heard of other methods like injecting with grease, white lithium, motorcycle chain oil, etc. Walt ----- Original Message ----- From: "Cohee, Michael" <mcohee@xxxxxxxxxx> To: <DMCForum@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Sent: Friday, May 23, 2003 11:49 AM Subject: [DMCForum] angle drive lubrication > after a year of non operation i may be on the verge of a red letter date...may soon start working! My speedometer does not know this yet so i am keeping it quiet so it wont break somthing else behind the dash....I will be installing the new dust cap soon and wanted to lube everything. I will remove the little screw and would slso like to lube the lower cable.....i have heard and read some people like 90 weight oil.....i have also read some old dml posts where some poeple just use the same grease as they use for their chasis in that little hole...anybody have a succesful lube or oil for long angle drive life? > > mike c > 2109 > > > To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: > DMCForum-unsubscribe@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > > > > Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/ > > > Yahoo! Groups Sponsor <http://rd.yahoo.com/M=251812.3170658.4537139.1261774/D=egroupweb/S=170512 6215:HM/A=1564416/R=0/*http://www.netflix.com/Default?mqso=60164797&partid =3170658> <http://us.adserver.yahoo.com/l?M=251812.3170658.4537139.1261774/D=egroupm ail/S=:HM/A=1564416/rand=604862171> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: DMCForum-unsubscribe@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to the Yahoo! Terms of Service <http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/> .
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