"Cé hé sin" (michael-m-mouse)
02/12/2020 at 18:20 • Filed to: Austin Cambridge, Grease
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"Cé hé sin" (michael-m-mouse)
02/12/2020 at 18:20 • Filed to: Austin Cambridge, Grease | 1
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Grease comes from the French word graisse meaning fat so we can guess that animal fat was used for lubrication before it was discovered that oil could be extracted from under the ground and by the application of chemistry used to make purpose designed lubricants.
Nowadays we have it easy in terms of car servicing. There’s a long service interval which your car will probably calculate for you so you won’t have to do much in the way of maintenance until you’ve done 15,000 miles/25,000 km or whatever.
It wasn’t always like this. Back in 1959 Motor magazine in the UK tested this Austin Cambridge.
They gave rather more technical details then than they would now and this extended to detailed servicing requirements. Every 1,000 miles the owner or the local garage had to get out the grease gun (supplied) and individually grease 17 points. You have it soft now.
The tools supplied incidentally assumed that the owner was going to do much of the maintenance personally so the tool kit consisted of:
Jack with brace
Tyre pump
Grease gun aforementioned
Screwdriver
Plug spanner
Tyre lever
Ignition screwdriver and gauge (for adjusting CB points)
Plug and valve feeler gauges
Starting handle (yes, a flat battery wasn’t stopping you)
TheRealBicycleBuck
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02/12/2020 at 18:32 |
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That’s part of the spring ritual on my mower. Zerks FTW!
fintail
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02/12/2020 at 19:00 |
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My fintail, introduced at roughly the same time as this Farina, has a similar greasing regimen, but less frequently - it gets done with the yearly service now adays, not sure what the book says, but I think its fine as the car hasn’t exceeded 1500 miles/year for over 15 years I bet.
Toolkit for that car is also a nice bundle with multi ple wrenches etc , but no tire pump nor starting handle (fuel injected car) , maybe more modern than this BMC which sounds like 193 0 s tech in a 1950s body, as many cars were during the 50s.
Moving from breaker point ignition to an electronic ignition box was the best thing I’ve done for driveability.
functionoverfashion
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02/12/2020 at 21:43 |
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I put pretty much an entire tube of grease through my grease gun every year on my truck. I’m not sure how many fittings there are but it’s something like 30. I do it usually in the spring and then again at some point in the summer.
MiniGTI - now with XJ6
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02/13/2020 at 00:08 |
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My Jaguar probably hasn’t seen a grease gun since the 90s. I should probably do something about that.