how often do you grease your polyurethane bushings?

I installed some aftermarket control arms a few years ago. Directions said "Grease your control arm bushings 2-3 times a year adding only 1 pump of grease, DO NOT OVER GREASE."
I've had problems with noise greasing at that interval. How often do you lube your polyurethane?

No matter how much I greased my rear sway bar, the squeaks returned. I stopped greasing them. Now they have some play, but make no noise anymore.

Juice said:

No matter how much I greased my rear sway bar, the squeaks returned. I stopped greasing them. Now they have some play, but make no noise anymore.

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Thanks, Juice. Part of my problem is the low quality grease fittings now-a-days. The car is noticeably quieter since a local shop installed some new fittings and pumped the bushings full of grease.

What kind of grease are you using? I use silicone, not petroleum, grease on my poly bushings and have no squeaks.

I'm using a marine grease. Maybe Lucas brand? Are you talking about silicone spray?

Thanks, Laga. Ima have to try that. I had used the SuperLube teflon, but maybe I didn't use enough or often enough.

In the heavy equipment world we usually grease joints weekly. Sometimes every 8 engine hours depending on the stress the joints are under.

Thanks, Total. I've added it to my calendar for every other month. I'll see how that works.

1st set of LCA's I put on my car, I forgot to grease them for awhile and later found out the holes in the bushings had gotten all wallowed out. Whoops

I don't put many miles on my car anymore so my greasing interval is extended but I try to do it about every 5000 miles or so (which with my car is usually 2 years)

Thanks, ghunt!

maybe add greasing the suspension joints at each oil change? I don't know how much you drive your car. I guess even as much as I drive, that's only 3 times a year.

There's not that many, and as long as you have it up in the air (if you have a lift that is), it's super easy to hit them all.

Thanks, pass! I can usually hit them with the car on the ground.

Not often enough. Just heard a squeak from the front.

Check. I just installed the Ford Performance front control arms. No grease fitting in sight.

I use the Energy suspension Formula 5 stuff for my LCA urethane bushings. This is PTFE filled silicon grease and the most sticky grease I have seen so far, disgusting But, must use it only once a year or less.

Thanks. I started with Superlube PTFE. When I ran out of that, I tried Lucas marine grease. I think maybe I had some really bad grease fittings. I had some that I would pump in grease, and it would shoot back out as soon as I removed the gun. Replaced those and had other bad/weird results.