How To: C15a Wire-3 restoration

[Phil Waterman]

Originally Posted by Jordan Baker

Just re reading the manual section on the steering knuckles. Two questions come up for me.

#7 (yellow) mentions installing a new “retainer pin”. What is this pin retaining?

#2 (red) “pack the steering ball socket”. Just how much do I pack in there? Any pictures of how much?

Hi Jordan

#7 The pin locates the center ball, without the pin the whole thing sort of falls apart as you try to put into the housing. Sort of like one of those Chinese wooden puzzles where you pull out one piece and it falls apart.

#8 how much grease- As much as you can get to stick to it, memory says there is a service bulletin that lists a weight of grease which I'll look for. The manual says to add grease, at service intervals, through the plug, but that to me is putting the new grease on the out side of the moving parts so I have a tube can insert through that plug into the center of the ball so that new grease gets pumped in to the center of the works.

Really enjoy watching your progess.

Cheers Phil