Grease question...

My Dad who just turned 91 in March always told me to use a good name brand product. That way if you can't get to the regular maintance because of weather or other unfore seen problems the quality of the product will get you over the hump until you can get to it. Dad would say "the extra buck you spend now could save you two later".

 

as far as gear oil. what is best to use? 80/90 or 80/140

 

walmart's moly grease on everything

 

Mystic red hi-temp on everything. I still have a few u-joints with over a million on 'em.

 

I use Traveler extreme duty. It last longer, only grease it every 15000 miles.

 

OOPS, Double post

 

use the same here.

 

The problem is most if not all of us use the same grease on all different components. U-joints require a non-moly grease, slack adjusters and s-cam bushings call for polyurea(very water resistant) grease, the clutch release bearing calls for high temp grease, and the spring bushings and kingpins need an EP grease.

 

The most important thing about grease is it does nothing if you do not use it. I know drivers that grease the front end every day. Spring pins, king pins , tie rod ends, and steering linkages.
Everything else gets it at least once a week, they use EP2, some will use synthetics in the slacks.
Buying a fancy grease then not using it does no good. Greasing the king pin itself is important, the plate, they make all kinds of special greases, packets and bulk.
We had a lot of truckers that went with the autogrease systems, then all you need to manually grease is the "U" joints.
Just a thought!

 

so now ya tell me. I rather not known. I use mystic red tube grease for everything. 15 years over 1.5 mil miles. NO problems.