Rear Beam

[splant 0]

hi read somewhere you could drill hole in the cross tube and put half pint of gearbox oil in to help keep the bearings lubed up,,,, any body done this? would it work??

[Paul_13 212 1 Cars]

Have honestly never heard of that one !

 

Sh!t loads of polymidbium (sp?) grease will do the job, alot easier to do when beam's apart.

[omega 82]

dont no about oil but maybe grease would be better?in fact you could fill the tube with grease

dont know if it would work as never tried it.

[hcmini1989 16]

drill and tap the beam out and put a grease niple in [should off been done from new realy] then every service grease it up.i suppose gear oil could work but it would have to be really thick or i doubt the seals would hold it in as there only real to keep dirt out

Edited January 28, 2010 by hcmini1989

[welshpug 1,645]

just replace the bearings every few years

[mr_exe 1]

I've done it on mine, and I use engine oil, every year when I get the car out of winter storage I get the oil can and give it 6 or so squirts of oil. To plug the hole I use the dust seal than comes with a new brake cylinder. This was the advice of a Peugeot specialist with over 30 years experience and it seems to have worked so far.

[Miles 331 1 Cars]

The Bearings are sealed so anything bar grease won;t get into them, They last a good 10 years so all I tend to say is replace the seal every 5 and re-grease then they should last longer than the car

[BusEngineer 7]

I done it to mine, i put four grease nipples in when i had it in bits to rebuild it. Ive put a grease nipple in between the bearings on both sides and near the end of the shafts. Should keep it new

 

Splant - Its on the bench at work if you want to come and have a look

[Baz 421]

All been tried and tested before, and talked to death!

 

General consensus is that nothing bar replaing the seals and bearings periodically is the only way to stop the beam from seizing and potentially ruining the shafts and beam tube itself. Even with grease niplles etc there's still condensation/water ingress etc, and what do you do with the old grease/oil/sh!te.

[matthewm 1]

With regards to phosphor bronze bushes I've heared many different views on greasing or leaving dry - has anyone tried both leaving dry and greasing to advise me from experience if there is a difference in wear to the bushes? Thanks.

[Baz 421]

They're meant to be self-lubricating, so although in theory greasing them also would help, it may not?

[welshpug 1,645]

I can't see it doing any harm, I've worked on a few HGV's that appeared to have this type of bush (brass coloured bush) in spring shackles and trailing arms on lift axles and they generally all have a grease nipple that would be greased at every inspection, i.e 6 weeks or so.

 

Unless they have a self lubricating system on board which would be a slightly thinner substance pumped into the bearings through lines connected to where you'd find grease nipples.