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Old 04-08-2004, 10:30 AM
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I cant find anywhere to grease my car... It looks like there is a fitting on top of the brake caliper, but it is too big for my grease gun, so i guess it isnt one.
the boots that i thought were supposed to hold grease look empty.
i looked in the manual and it says to take it to the dealership, but i;d like to avoid that.
thanks for the help.
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No grease fittings at all. The ones on your caliper are the bleeding screws to bleed brakes. Do not put grease in there! On my 98 the only bushing that I have ever had to grease was the torque arm bushing, but that may be cause I replaced it with a polyurethane bushing.
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I believe from the factory all the grease ports are capped off. You can replace the caps with the correct grease fittings from a parts store. I know the locations are listed in my haynes manual (thats about all the damn thing is worth) .
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Originally Posted by rushman
I believe from the factory all the grease ports are capped off. You can replace the caps with the correct grease fittings from a parts store. I know the locations are listed in my haynes manual (thats about all the damn thing is worth) .
yep what rushman said
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Yeah i don't remember seeing any.... now i'll have to go and look
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the last time I had my car at the dealer, the mechanic showed me there were no grease fittings while my car was on the rack
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so if theres no grease fittings... what do peole with high mile cars do? wait for the components to fail????
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What are you guys so eager to grease anyways?
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Yeah there are no grease fittings on our cars. Its what they called sealed fittings, I guess that means they never need grease if they are sealed for good. If the componenets do fail replace them all with BMR components ahaha. Good Luck guys



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