Lube

Hello to the great @wise ones . This question may make me sound new to the Bees, but I can assure you that I'm not. It's just that the mind starts to go after 50. I'm working on my third MGB which is a '69 roadster (I know, the world's ugliest dash). I have totally stripped down the car and had it flatbeded to the paint shop. While the car is there I have working on the "parts". My question is about the proper lubrication of the wiper boxes and spring cable in the tube. What type of grease is the best. I'm in Florida and it gets really hot in the summer. Right now it looks like it has been lubed with axle grease. (Seems too heavy to me).Also what is really the best lube for the speedo cable--liquid graphite?? Don't want to go up behind the dash after reassembly because the 4inch tall MG tech that's with me now will want to go back home to Britain after the job is done.
Pete

Pete,
I thought the same thing about the grease in my wiper works, but it's really ok stuff. If there's plenty still there just move it around where it gets on everything, it don't really need great gobs of grease. Any good buttery grease that won't start melting and dripping out will do fine. Most wheel bearing grease for disc brakes is like that now a days. Liquid graphite is good in the speedo cable. I put some lithium with Moly gun grease in my hand and drug the cable through it as I put it in the housing. It's worked good for 5 years on the MG, 14 years in Beastie, and darn near 20 years on my weedeater.

Thanks John for your quick night owl response. Any tips on how to "break-in" a new wife of three years to the MG experience? I think that is the hardest task any Bee owner can take on. On another note, was it not you that (can't refer to the BBS at the moment) was tempted to buy that Big Healey with the strange body??? Not to get myself in trouble as a newcomer to this BBS, but my first love in cars was the Austin Healey. I had a '59 two-seater 100-6 when I went off to college in '63, and then bought a slightly used '65 MKIII (BRG) in '65 (roll-up windows-what a luxury!). I cut my British car mech skills on those two cars especially the '59. (lost a generator in middle of winter's night 50 miles from nowhere in Iowa) Back then in Iowa they didn't even know what a British sports car was. Side curtains were great in 25 degrees below zero weather. The good thing about then was you could take your wire wheels to Falvey Motors in Detroit and have them re-spoked for $25 each.) Then I went through a '63 Alfa, '62 Sunbeam Alpine (The Rootes Who?), 124 Fiat Sport Coupe'??, and finally broke into MGB's in '79 with a '72 roadster, in '91 with a '68 roadster, and in '96 with my current '69 roadster. I've had just about as many wives. I love MG's, much more reliable than the other Brits, but I will always have a torch burning for a Big Healey. As we all probably have said, "If I had only known then...".
Pete

Yup! That was me. You could cut your teeth, gums, and jawbone on the Healey we're talking about.

Put her in the drivers seat out on a good country road.

John