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Car Forum / MINI / August 2003

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Graphite Grease?

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taffy_turner - 19 Aug 2003 13:59 GMT
I want to replace the bushes on the steering column of my 90' Mainstream
Mini Cooper, but the haynes manual states you need to coat the bushes in
graphite grease, anyone got any idea where this stuff can be obtained from?

Taffy
Chris Morriss - 19 Aug 2003 19:52 GMT
>I want to replace the bushes on the steering column of my 90' Mainstream
>Mini Cooper, but the haynes manual states you need to coat the bushes in
>graphite grease, anyone got any idea where this stuff can be obtained from?
>
>Taffy

My local Halfords has it!
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Skirrow - 21 Aug 2003 10:12 GMT
> I want to replace the bushes on the steering column of my 90' Mainstream
> Mini Cooper, but the haynes manual states you need to coat the bushes in
> graphite grease, anyone got any idea where this stuff can be obtained from?
>
> Taffy

What does graphite grease do? Would there be a problem if I had just
done the job and used LM gease for instance....
Graham - 21 Aug 2003 13:12 GMT
> taffy wrote:
> > I want to replace the bushes on the steering column of my 90'
> > Mainstream Mini Cooper, but the haynes manual states you need to
> > coat the bushes in graphite grease, anyone got any idea where
> > this stuff can be obtained from?

> What does graphite grease do? Would there be a problem if I had just
> done the job and used LM gease for instance....

It's basically a low pressure sliding surface grease.

See my comments in the other post in this thread a few minutes ago
explaining that molybdenum grease is something quite different.

In fact for the base of a steering column, where there is little risk of
the stuff escaping and getting on things it shouldn't, molybdenum grease
would do fine, but it's a bit over the top - it's intended for extreme
pressure sliding surfaces like CV joints and ball joints.

It is vital you do not use molybdenum grease in roller bearings or
needle rollers, such as trailing arm pins.

The major use of graphite grease is things like door latches, hinges and
checklinks, where the expense of molybdenum grease is not justified (but
what does that matter if you've already got some moly but no graphite
grease?) and where the nasty black sticky staining nature of moly grease
is a potential disaster on someone's good clothes.
taffy_turner - 24 Aug 2003 16:56 GMT
> > taffy wrote:
> > > I want to replace the bushes on the steering column of my 90'
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> grease?) and where the nasty black sticky staining nature of moly grease
> is a potential disaster on someone's good clothes.

Anyway I tried Halfords today and had no luck with Graphite Grease, I'll
have to try and order some from my local auto-parts supplier?

Taffy
 
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