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Date: Fri, 16 Feb 2001 16:32:30 -0500
From: Skip Bogard <Skip.Bogard_at_ALUMni.DUKE.edu>
Subject: Re: [E36M3] Squeaking Steering
> My steering wheel has developed a faint squeak, audible when turned to the
> left about 40 degrees. ......................... Anyone know of a way to
> lubricate this or otherwise make it stop?
Steering wheel ring lubrication under "Groupe 32" of the BMW Fluids & Lubricants
microfiche specifies that you use 3M part no. 8945. I have a can...it is
basically a thick copper-oil-graphite conductive oily paste. And a dash of
zinc-oxide. Mix well.
I've opened cans of other manufacturer's Anti-Seize (like CRC's & Permatex) and
they visibly look the same...like a bunch of micro-fine ground copper in a bay
of sardine oil. An 8 ounce can gets you a brush in the cap, whose bristles
usually are not up to standing against the stiffness of copper paste.
But when I read MSDS's from 3M competitors, some have say aluminum in addition
to copper, or calcium carbonate in lieu of zinc oxide (read this for more
info: http://www.whitmores.com/TechInfoBulletins/TIB-1067.htm) Is this
cheapening out? I don't think so. If you manufactured tens of thousands of
E36's like BMW, you'd really care about little details like this. The
zinc oxide dust is self-sacrificing and can protect electrical connections.
Who woulda thought the same thinking that went into zinc plating a gate hinge
from your hardware store also went into the lube used in your M3 steering wheel?
However, one company called A.S.T. sells thirteen types of anti-seize, each with
varying amounts of copper, nickel, aluminum, zinc, graphite, oil, moly...(or leaves
some ingredient out) for good reasons: http://www.astinfo.com/compounds.htm
So you'll have to compare the Material Data Safety Sheets yourself to decide
on another product if you don't want the BMW approved 3M product. p.s. any
NAPA store has the 3M product...about $10 for a small can. BMW also lists
a CRC product as approved, but I wrote CRC a while back and they tell me the
part number on the BMW microfiche is not one of theirs. 3M Product details below.
Cheers,
WHAT BMW RECOMMENDS FOR THE STEERING WHEEL LUBRICATION
TRADE NAME: 3M(TM) Brake Lube/Anti-Seize Compound, P.N. 08945
ID NUMBER/U.P.C.: 60-9800-1747-3 00-51135-08945-3
MSDS ISSUED: August 17, 1999
MSDS SUPERSEDED: September 10, 1998
DOCUMENT: 11-6646-1
- INGREDIENT C.A.S. NO. PERCENT
COPPER.................................. 7440-50-8 40.0 - 50.0
HYDROTREATED RESIDUAL OIL (PETROLEUM)... 64742-57-0 30.0 - 45.0
GRAPHITE................................ 7782-42-5 5.0 - 15.0
BENTONITE............................... 1302-78-9 5.0 - 15.0
POLYISOBUTYLENE......................... 9003-27-4 1.0 - 10.0
ZINC OXIDE.............................. 1314-13-2 1.0 - 5.0
Darling Christopher Maj AMC/CEXR wrote:
>
> Date: Thu, 15 Feb 2001 13:03:50 -0600
> From: Darling Christopher Maj AMC/CEXR <chris.darling_at_scott.af.mil>
> Subject: Squeaking Steering
>
> My steering wheel has developed a faint squeak, audible when turned to the
> left about 40 degrees. Dealer diagnosed a bad "slip ring" requiring
> replacement. Big $$ to just cure a squeak. Anyone know of a way to
> lubricate this or otherwise make it stop?
>
> Or is the solution simply a couple more jabs of the stereo volume button?
> 95 M3, 84K miles.
> ---------------------------end
> Cod
> Major Chris Darling
> HQ AMC/CEXR
> DSN 779-0698, Comm (618) 229-0698
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