Tim+ wrote:
Bill Wright wrote:
This is a Pride Gogo traveller.The ride was very hard, It turned out
that the buggy was fitted with seat suspension (the instructions said
'where fitted', but it was completely seized up. One tube was meant to
slide inside another but it was rigidly stuck. It took a big hammer to
free it. The grease had solidified into a waxy substance. I cleaned it
all up and adjusted the suspension to 'softest'. The spring appears to
be a valve spring out of a big diesel or something similar; a very very
strong compression spring. The suspension now works but it is still
quite hard.

Bill


I wonder whether someone has been using a volatile lubricant like WD40 that
washed out the original lube and then evaporated?

WD40 really isn't a very good lubricant, when the volatile bit goes
then what's left is distinctly sticky. It's not really designed to
lubricate long term, it's for water dispersal.

After using WD40 to unsieze/free something (if you have to) then clean
it off and put some proper long term treatment there, depends on the
application whether that will be light oil, thick oil, grease or
something else (e.g. copaslip).

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Chris Green
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