Date:         Fri, 16 May 2003 12:09:26 +1000
Reply-To:     Stephen Overmyer <s.overmyer@UWS.EDU.AU>
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From:         Stephen Overmyer <s.overmyer@UWS.EDU.AU>
Subject:      Re: creaking coming from under pass seat area
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>Date: Fri, 16 May 2003 12:07:41 +1000
>To: David Brodbeck <gull@gull.us>
>From: Stephen Overmyer <s.overmyer@uws.edu.au>
>Subject: Re: creaking coming from under pass seat area
>
>At 09:51 AM 15/05/2003 -0400, you wrote:
>>On Thu, 15 May 2003, Stephen Overmyer wrote:
>>
>> > Try starting with routinely using a bit of lubricant (and I mean that
>> in the
>> > nicest possible way...)
>>
>>What's a "safe" lubricant to use on rubber bushings?  I have the usual
>>control arm bushing creak, and I also have a squeaky shifter bushing
>>that's driving me up the wall.
>   The spray grease I used was a thin(ish) general lubricating grease in
>   a spray can with a nozzle to squirt into hard-to-get places.
>   I can't honestly say what is a safe/unsafe lubricant in these
> circumstances...
>   But it was a VW business with whom I'm friendly who put me onto it
>   so I assumed it was OK....Nothing undesirable has happened as a result...
>
>   It took a while to finally work it's way into the bushing....I
> routinely sprayed
>   the bushing and general area as best I could as part of each service
>   regime...it wasn't any overnight sucess.I kept at it at each service
> for over
>   a year...but it seemed to work eventually as the creak went away and
>   has never returned.......so far anyway...;)
>
>   Cheers,
>   Steve O
>   NSW Australia
>   '92 Transporter WBX Kombi
>   '68 Beetle
>   '00 Transporter Double Cab
>   '03 Transporter Double Cab (work truck)