[Kurt in NJ]

Ford spring lube was not grease--- M4628 spring lube has it's ingerdiants listed in the 36 service bulletins, 77-1/2% ice machine oil (from what I can find 10wtoil), 20% talc (talc is a lubricating, polishing and filler, it also came up in my searches as an ingrediant in a Slip Plate product), 2-1/2% pulverized asbestos

Grease wouldn't work well with spring covers---but thin oil will soak into the felt pads in the spring covers ( I don't know how the repros are made, but original spring covers have a felt pad that is in the top of the covers

Another often forgotten lubrication place is in the hand crank bearing ---oil squirted in there goes down the centerbolt and onto the spring leaves