Grease Job

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Saturday Big Jim Headley and myself spent a lovely warm SoCal day

greasing the '26 Hudson. I reckoned it would be a 2 hour job, but knowing the

way that these jobs progress it seemed that it would be wise to budget some

extra time. That turned out to be fortuitous!

A friend offered use of his lube rack for the project and that offered a

chance to have a good long inspection of the vehicle. I have been under the

car before, but always on my back with specific work to do, hardly conducive

to having an observant look around.

Judging by the hardened grease forced out hear and there by the gun, it

would look like this car has seen no lube in 30 years and in some areas

probably much longer than that! I found a few fittings (in areas that only a

Super Six knowledgeable fellow might guess to look) that still had some old

Alemite fittings. I would have to guess that these were installed in the late

twenties or early thirties. After that time the Zerks were much more common.

We pulled the front wheels and cleaned and regreased the bearings. The

hubs and bearings looked fine and I now have more confidence in them. The

kingpins are terribly worn.

The U-Joints took the most enormous about of grease and after pumping for

what seemed an eternity, we gave up. Some is in there, but I never did see

the dust covers move out slightly confirming the cavities are full. I could

smell a little grease on the exhaust pipe later on so I'm happy with the

amount we put in.

There is a binding in the steering that still has to be addressed. The

box has a Zerk instead of the pipe plug so it seems likely that somebody

greased the box at some time, but I will see if adding some of the Penrite

steering box lube might help. It might also be possible that someone adjusted

up the steering box and got the adjustment too tight. I reckon we'll have to

check that too!

A pic of the belly (the car's not Headley's or mine) is attached and I'll

post a few more over the rest of the week.







Paul O'Neil, Hudson29@aol.com

Fullerton, California USA



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