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successful lubrication of centre support bearing? 200 1993

Started to hear the "ghosts in 3 part harmony" a couple of weeks ago and assumed I was in for a centre support donut and bearing replacement. Read some stuff in the archives and came across a post describing a lubrication procedure involving removing the support and lubing the bearing by removing the dust cover on the bearing and actually packing the grease in the bearing. Before ordering parts I figured I better check the U-joints etc. and decided to drop the support and check the bearing. Turns out the U-joints must have been replaced recently (I've had this car for about a year) as they were tight and looked new. The donut looked newish too, as did the bearing, however it barely turned by hand and when I popped the dust guard off (I know, it's a sealed bearing but I was curious to try, given the experience of the brickboard told me I could) the grease was sparse and solid and the bearings were rusty. So I greased it up and immediately it spun without much resistance. I kept spinning it and replaced the old rusty solid grease with fresh stuff. So, I put everything back together and no more ghosts.

Ron
93 245 320,000 km
near Brantford, ON, Can






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New successful lubrication of centre support bearing? [200][1993]
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