My car squeeked like crazy when I got it. It had had all the Zerks fittings installed, but must not have been lubed in a very long time!
I took it to JiffyLube, and the receipt said they lubed it, but it still squeeked like crazy. I finally bought a cheapy grease gun from Schucks and lubed it myself. Whoever put the Zerks on the upper control arms actually cut a hole in the shock tower on one side with a cutting torch so you could get at it from inside the engine bay. On the other side, there's no hole but they put in a right-angle Zerk. It's so close to the shock tower, however, that I had to file a chamfer into my grease gun to get it to engage on to the Zerk.
When I lubed it the first time I had to pump in a HUGE amount of grease. You need to pump grease in until you see the rubber boot on the bulge, or until you see grease ooze out if there isn't a boot. Once I got sufficient grease into the fittings, no more squeek! (Still clunks pretty loud over bumps, though.)
Yeah, WD-40 won't help much if the squeek it due to a lack of grease!
Gary MacDonald
ROGER's...
EX... '63 Hardtop
Had...
Scarebird front discs
200 w/ CI alum head
C4
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