BullyFooked
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- Joined
- Mar 6, 2012
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- Location
- France, Italy & the U.K.
- Your Mercedes
- 2 x 230CE 1982
Gentlemen, Ladies, I have lost touch with Mercedes probably because, being English they neither liked my responses to their lazy, facile replies and my asking them to find someone over fifty to ask about the lubrication used in the 123 series drive joints after they responded that all they could do was look in some contemporary Mercedes publication. My 1982 230CE (one of them) with less that 100,000 miles on it has no wear on the faces of the universal joints (they are off and apart because the 1982 rubbers are showing signs of wear). All the boot kits are supplied with grease, which I refuse to use for two reasons: no wear on original equipment using what smells like gear oil 80 or 90 and the fact that rather than just rubber boots the boot attaches to a can obviously designed to contain the oil that engineers and designers, not accountants, came up with. My question is what was the oil and what quantity should I use in each (top and bottom). Perhaps I should add for the benefit of anyone that does not get my point is that if thirty one year old Crystal clear oil was good enough to inhibit wear then contemporary oil will probably do the trick but then I don't like lights, interior mirrors, handbrakes and windscreen wipers that work of their own accord nor do I have time for a radio that cannot be tuned manually with a knob. Your kind responses will be greatly appreciated particularly if you are under fifty!