MoS grease or "all-purpose"?

Post by **Bluesman** » Tue Mar 11, 2008 8:09 pm

Guys - when greasing up the various grease points, will MoS (molybden sulfíde) grease be a better choice than the run-of-the-mill all purpose grease?

The front suspension will recieve that magic red grease after the rebuild (mostly poly bushes, i e those that are available), but the rest of the car?

Cheers /Richard

Post by **MoggyTech** » Tue Mar 11, 2008 10:27 pm

Doesn't make a whole lot of diffrence to be honest.

Post by **Orkney** » Tue Mar 11, 2008 10:35 pm

I use tractor stuff - lithium i think it is, out of choice would use castrol grease because its a nice ligth brown colour rather than dark as the tractor stuff is (oh and it smells nicer

) with a light colour its better because you can see if its worked out ie gone dark.

Post by **bmcecosse** » Sat Mar 15, 2008 12:14 pm

Yes - Moly grease is worth the difference.

Post by **alanworland** » Sat Mar 15, 2008 8:15 pm

Is this moly grease suitable for all the grease points? I have a tin of graphited grease (cant think what I bought it for) do you think this would be ok, particularly with the lubricating properties of graphite?

Post by **MoggyTech** » Sat Mar 15, 2008 11:54 pm

alanworland wrote:Is this moly grease suitable for all the grease points? I have a tin of graphited grease (cant think what I bought it for) do you think this would be ok, particularly with the lubricating properties of graphite?

Yes it will be fine for all of the Moggy grease points. Moly grease is primarily a CV joint grease and is slightly less prone to getting washed out by road debris/water that may find it's way into a trunnion via the swivel pin seals. It can also withstand higher temperaturers, so good for wheel bearings in that respect. The only downside I know of for Moly grease, is if there are two different metals in contact with each other, it can cause severe wear, but that was in my gunsmith days working on hunting rifles

Post by **dalebrignall** » Sun Mar 16, 2008 10:41 am

use the moly or the general purpose dont use the graphite we used that when i was on the farm for lubricating the forklift mast,it does cause scoring of metal

Post by **Kevin** » Mon Mar 17, 2008 12:46 pm

will recieve that magic red grease after the rebuild (mostly poly bushes, i e those that are available),

For the poly bushes use White Grease the Red is only for rubber.

Post by **Bluesman** » Wed Mar 19, 2008 9:07 pm

Hmm...what on earth is "white grease"? Please clarify, I was under the impression that the Castrol red stuff was good for both rubber and poly? I had it sold to me as such, anyhow...

Cheers /Richard

Post by **bigginger** » Wed Mar 19, 2008 9:25 pm

It's exactly that. White, greasy and called white grease

PS No really, honestly, it is
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Post by **Kevin** » Tue Mar 25, 2008 4:14 pm

what on earth is "white grease"? Please clarify

Sorry for the slow reply but here it is
http://www.halfords.com/webapp/wcs/stor ... ryrn_77314
And I have only ever been reccommended white grease with poly bushes, and one of the manufacturers supply it with their bushes.

Post by **overider** » Tue Mar 25, 2008 4:56 pm

Hi, I believe the white grease is a food grade grease made from veg oils etc hence it has no added chemicals in it. So there is nothing that will perish or harm the rubber or Polly bushes.

Post by **Kevin** » Tue Mar 25, 2008 4:58 pm

Not so sure about that as rubber grease is always red but I am no chemist although I think we do have one on the board who might be able to explain fully.

Post by **overider** » Tue Mar 25, 2008 5:08 pm

The red grease is something different to the white. The red was I thing specifically for use with different rubbers and rubber type products etc and I have no idea of its make up.