Maintenance and cleaning up

Grease and oil can be your friend, saviour or enemy when it comes to classic Fords. They are needed to keep parts moving freely, but when mixed with dirt, can destroy components and when applied to the wrong parts, such as brake discs, can have catastrophic consequences. It may seem like a constant battle to keep certain parts clean and other parts lubricated. It’s perhaps fair to say that the main aim of grease or any maintenance lubricant is to keep a component moving freely, but there’s more to this subject. Use the wrong lubricant and it can cause disaster. Take the slider pins used in many single-piston brake callipers from the 1980s onwards. If these pins are fitted through rubber