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Strut bearing grease

posted by  rstarkie on  Sun Mar 22 04:53 CST 2009
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I am preparing to replace the strut cartridges and ball joints on a 1988 244.

I saved a nice pair of strut bearings from a car I parted out. They seem to be in excellent condition and rotate freely. I cleaned up the area around the bearing and carefully removed the dust cover.

As you can see the original grease does not seem contaminated, but seems to be somewhat "clotted". A sample rolled between finger and thumb reveals no real dryness, clumping, or foreign matter.

I would like to press in some addition grease. I decided that wheel bearing grease would be as good as any but that is nothing more than an uneducated guess.

What do you think?

Randy






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