After cleaning all the green gunge out from some electrical connections I have a tube of silicone grease and some spray white lithium.

 

After reading the blurb on the spray lithium it provides excellent electrical resistance!? - surely this is not what you want.

 

Anyone know how your meant to use this or the best way of sealing the connections - do I spray on grease/silicone - let it dry then put connection spades back on?or just clip everything back in then spray afterwards - (this will not touch the electrical connections tho as there is plastic bushings round.

 

Thanks

It just means it is more of an insulator than air. It does not mean that your connections won't make conductively. The connections are mechanically forced metal to metal and the more you can exclude air from the bare metal the better chance the connection has of staying sound long term. The age of these cars and our damp climate means that copper oxides form easily and in doing so slowly force connections apart giving high resistance and various problems. O2 sensor conns, coil pack conns, temp senser conns and injectors are all candidates for problems from oxide plus others.

which would you recommend mate - spray on white lithium or some silicone grease from a tube :)

I use cheap old vaseline and have never had problems.

I use cheap old vaseline and have never had problems.

 

old schools best

I used dielectric grease which is what was suggested in a tech article on TT.net. I have had no probelms at all since using it and before I had idle issues.

 

 

Tony from Oz