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I'm with Arwyn here Keith and can I say your front end really needs cleaning badly and now!

Gaiters, well they're ok to a degree but the suspension does get warm and the grease softens and can therefore exit the hub and pin areas more easily especially when it's banging up and down and literally pumping it out! Don't believe me! next time you've greased them and driven the car have a look under the wheel arches and close by areas and you will see blobs of grease splattered around in many directions. When left to eventually contaminate the hub area like yours you really are in danger of effecting brake efficiency and pad longevity. eventually those gaiters fill with grease and when warm and moving up and down it draws the road grit in as they suck as well as blow! Bit like a toilet plunger! That's why I chose not to have gaiters fitted, keep them clean and inspected is the way to go for me! I keep all the old and unpaired socks from the family and use them to clean out the spring and pin areas in the style of a shoe shine cleaner! I used to use hessian plasterers scrim roll but boy is it now expensive! Stripes of old hessian sacking is probably the best if you can get a supply as they hold the old grease rather than spreading it about!. Nipple access has always been hit and miss but 45' options are the way to go. yours car probably has UNC threads so ask Melvyn Rutter for replacements to fit. If you're having difficulty with the prop shaft U/J nipples then its probably because they are not long enough, loads of prop shafts seemed to have been fitted with short things in the factory and the gun will not fully engage and will leak out at the connector, Uncle Melvyn also stocks the correct items here too! Keep enjoying yourself Keith and get that front end cleaned up like the inside of the car!

Over my many years of Morgan motoring I have developed my own spring covers which I have mentioned but I don't think anyone has adopted. I mention it again here, for your consideration.
I grease until the old grease comes out. Clean up then I wrap upper and lower springs with kitchen cling film, about two or three wraps. This contains the the new grease as the suspension pumps over the potholes.
It also stays on quite happily with no need for fasteners of any kind.
Next greasing I pull it off and it brings old grease off with it.
So simple, so quick, so cheap!
Has worked well for me.
Nick

My personal gaiters are in two layers. An inner flexible leather gaiter, over which I use my standard mohair gaiters. Each is secured using sewn on velcro with the overlap facing rearwards. After many years and a lot of adverse weather, an occasional removal shows no ingress of either water or road grit.

Keith, How did the French trip go, would be nice to know how the Mog fared and the driver!

Is that also a worn outer edge I see on your tyre, one side or both?