Centurion shock absorber question

[Malcolm Towrie]

Originally Posted by Mike Cecil

Australia changed from oil to grease: perhaps Canada did the same?

Were the plugs, plugs or those flat, slide-on type grease nipples (don't remember the name)

Mike

Hi, Mike,
I found the pivot arms between the road wheel stub axles and the suspension units were converted to grease. These are hollow and were originally filled with oil to lubricate the bushings. The oil fill plugs were simply drilled and tapped for the weird (and in my opinion hopeless ) British grease fittings. Perhaps that's is what you are thinking of? Because the shocks need a thin oil to pump through small orifices to do any damping, rather than a grease.

The shock reservoirs just have a large fill plug.

I made the executive decision from a maintainabilty point of view to convert all the British grease fittings to standard grease fittings. It's an easy conversion as the British fittings use 1/8"-28TPI BSP threads which are so close to 1/8"-27 NPT they thread right in.

Malcolm