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Old Mar 10, 2005 | 07:04 PM
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Originally Posted by C5FAST
Use grease. And not silicon grease or petroleum based grease. I used silicon di-electric grease and the damn things started to squeak. I went back and greased them with lithium based grease. Problem solved.
Most every thread I have seen utilize the silicon dielectric grease to lube the bushings...what's the right answer??
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Old Mar 10, 2005 | 11:50 PM
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Originally Posted by gpotski
Most every thread I have seen utilize the silicon dielectric grease to lube the bushings...what's the right answer??
I had been told either silicon dielectric or lithium grease (no petroleum based grease). I had some silicon dielectirc so I used it and had a lot of squeeking. When I took the insultors off to regrease them, the silicon grease was all runny, almost watery. I used lithium grease the second time and had no problems.
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Old Mar 11, 2005 | 12:00 AM
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.....I took a trip over to Corvette's of Houston and spoke with one of their guys about my sway bar squeeking problem and he told me how to fix it and what to use. He said they use lithium grease on the bushings. That's the grease I bought and that did the trick. I'm happy.........
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