Please consider this to be a question on general mechanical technique, hopefully applicable to cars.
I need to lubricate a sleeve bearing and a rubber seal on a washing machine I am repairing.
The bearing consists of a 1.25" steel shaft inside a seemingly bronze sleeve. On the same shaft, above the bearing, there is a rubber seal that must keep 21"-deep water out of the bearing. The shaft turns during spin cycles, I guess at around 500-800 rpm. I would hope that the lube job would last twenty years.
What kind and how much lube should I use, and where should I put it?
Especially I am concerned about lubing the seal, because its failure caused the ruin of an expensive part (the transmission). The seal has three lips separated by two grooves. Should I put lubricant in the grooves? What kind and how much?