Quote Originally Posted by Ross View Post
I'm reasonably certain that oil isn't the lubricant in the release bearing, the seal will prevent the soak from being effective and that if it were the oil would dilute the grease making it less effective.
While BPE has some interesting ways of bodging things together for a temporary fix and would be on my short list of folks to have along during a breakdown in Beirut, deliberately putting an oil soaked object in the center of a fresh clutch seems a dodgy practice at best.
Fair comment, I come from a generation of British cars that had little if any lube in the release bearing! The trick of balancing a prop shaft with two jubillee clips comes from the same book of bodges but it does work.