After the ball do you lube leaf springs?

[sandman2234]

I will tell you one use of WD-40 that can't be disputed. It works very well on drilling or machining aluminum. I use it by the gallon and love the way it keeps the aluminum from sticking to the endmill and the finish it leaves on the aluminum. There are other lubricants available that will do the same thing, but wd-40 is available almost everywhere.
I don't lube my springs, as the sand here sticks to the lube and creates problems.
David from jax

 

[jsborn]

I notice they use the term LIGHT LUBRICANT...I wonder what they mean by that???

They must mean one of two things either they want you to use it on very small tractors OR it will keep your light bulbs lubricated.

 

[Skyco]

The WD40 ruining ammo is a fact. About 25 years ago I had an old Cool Whip tub that I kept bulk .22 ammo in. Got the idea somehow that spraying it all down with WD40 would be a good idea. Note this was YEARS before I ever saw this problem published...but then in the pre-internet days we all missed a lot
So scroll forward a few months. Went to shoot that ammo...probably 95% were duds- wouldn't light off, they had been fine before my WD40 treatment
Reminds me of the time I Armor-All'd my motorcycle seat about the same time frame, looked great made- it so slippery I couldn't hardly stay on it. That was also long before the warnings came out to not put it on brake pedals, motorcycle seats and rubber footpegs etc

 

[RobS]

I had an old Triumph car years ago with a transverse leaf spring for the rear suspension. The owners manual actually recommended lubing the spring with used oil periodically. I can't say as I've ever lubed leaf springs but it surely can't hurt.

 

[Bird]

I had an old Triumph car years ago with a transverse leaf spring for the rear suspension. The owners manual actually recommended lubing the spring with used oil periodically. I can't say as I've ever lubed leaf springs but it surely can't hurt.

Rob, as a teenager, I worked in my Dad's service stations back in the days when lots of cars and pickups had leaf springs. And it wasn't unusual for vehicles to have squeaky suspensions. We had a rubber lubricant that we could spray on rubber grommets, and we could spray some lubricants on leaf springs. However, the consensus of opinion back then was "if it ain't squeaking, don't mess with it because once you start spraying stuff on them, that will stop the squeak temporarily, but you'll have to keep repeating it from then on." Supposedly the only way to stop the squeak was to take the leaf springs apart and thoroughly clean them. Of course a lot of them had little fabric or rubber pads between the leafs.