CV grease revisited

[Wendell #527]

Use Desco 600. Just try to get that stuff off your hands! Best stuff on the market and is made by a company called Chemola. It's not too well known, and very expensive. High pressure surface safety valves used offshore require this to seal and lubricate their high pressure gate valves. It is very thick and sticky and will never break down, and the temp handling capacity is way over anything a cv could generate at any speed.

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[Brazen Chris]

Anybody ever had any issues with plain old Lucas Red n Tacky on a 930 CV on a 2/1600 car?

[Fourstroker]

Anybody ever had any issues with plain old Lucas Red n Tacky on a 930 CV on a 2/1600 car?

I don't know about issues but reed and tacky is not made for that kind of temperature. If you are looking to run a Lucas product in the cv's of 1600 car I would run the Xtra duty green. I think they are almost exactly the same cost.

[baja619]

For high performance and high temperature this is the way to go.

Lucas G3 Racing Grease
http://www.lucasoil.com/products/dis...acing%20Grease


Not cheap but the performance properties is worth it.

[cusico]

Don't remember the greases we played around with, but the most bada$$ stuff is krytox (sp?). Super heat tolerance, very $$$, its used on the space shuttle by nasa for some bearing lube.

That judgement came from being to easy to clean my hands after using it. I think its a good cv grease if you've got to use gas and brake clean before you can start thinking about washing your hands.

Nitrile gloves. Your welcome for the tip. J/K
Use the Krytox solvent to dissolve it.


Krytox LVP grease is the end all grease. $1300-$1550 per cartridge. Very special stuff.

They make a Krytox bearing grease that is about $500 per cartridge. What a deal!

Sigma in St Louis is cheaper than RMI or Miller Stephens here in CA if you really want some $1500 a tube lube.

I have thought of using some of their over the top gear oils and greases, but a trans gear oil change would cost $1000.

[ACID_RAIN28]

Note that the only way to clean a unit that has run krytox is freon.... The Teflon embeds itself in the metal.
We have come across a new grease with a disulfide blend much safer than the Teflon an cheeper than the neo. Problem with the neo was that it isn't always fresh. The new stuff called tribolube has performed just as good as the krytox. That is what the pflueger truck has in it now and all of harrahs desert car including the dominator chassis that ran at the hdra race. It has 26" of travel and tha axles plunge 6.2 inches. All four joints ran at 180 degrees max


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[partybarge_pilot]

The new stuff called tribolube has performed just as good as the krytox.

What P/N was that?

[ACID_RAIN28]

Tribolube-5
Aerospace lubricants
Google them you can order right from the website. They will package it In any size n shape you want. They only list a couple options but when you call it's all available


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[sqrly1776]

For high performance and high temperature this is the way to go.

Lucas G3 Racing Grease
http://www.lucasoil.com/products/dis...acing%20Grease


Not cheap but the performance properties is worth it.

This is not a cv grease. TRUST ME!!!!!!!
Thousands of dollars in cv`s later this fact was confirmed by the great people at lucas oil. I use the lucas green grease with a little red in it for low horsepower cars. V8 stuff you cant beat the bellray with swepco.

To be continued..................

[5racer]

Doug, its a great idea, but lots of people have allready done this. I know on several cars I've worked on, our grease mix/blend has come from this real world testing.
You'll notice that certain greases yeild certain benifits, such as less wear, and some stick to the metal better.
Also, some of the greases can only take one heat cycle before degrading.
You'll notice that the longer you run the car, the more one grease will seem like a better option.
Don't remember the greases we played around with, but the most bada$$ stuff is krytox (sp?). Super heat tolerance, very $$$, its used on the space shuttle by nasa for some bearing lube.
Best of luck, try moly greases, mckenzies sell belray w/ moly. I personally never really liked the neo cv grease. That judgement came from being to easy to clean my hands after using it. I think its a good cv grease if you've got to use gas and brake clean before you can start thinking about washing your hands.

lol so true about hands cv,s suck it has to be the messy thing iv ever done in life worse than my Kidd's diapers