The dog clutches in the centre of the rollers should only ever be lightly oiled and no grease used as they are required to fall naturally downwards as the roller turns and grease would prevent that happening.
Thrust bearing should only be lightly greased if you can manipulate grease into it as we don't want grease to be flicked outwards and eventually find its way to the clutch surfaces.
Self aligning bearing (that's if you are still using one of those) should be packed well with grease with no further oiling required. Many people now are simply using a sealed bearing as that is what Rover ended up doing and replaced the SA bearing with a solid standard unit. The smoother your engine runs the less you'll require a SA bearing, also the SA bearings are very highly priced opposed to a standard type unit.
Just touching on your photos that you've posted above, what colour have you used on the reel ?, is it "Chevrolet Orange" ? as it's nice to see one in what was pretty much the colour that SB used for their reels, but as we all know many restorers now prefer Signal Red as it looks a bit more modern I guess.
Anyway progress looks really good and I'm sure you'll have the nicest Model 45 in your neighbourhood, that's a certainty.
Cheers, BB.
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