For high temperature applications, especially things which may need to come apart again, my ant-seize grease of choice is Never-Seez Pure Nickle. Great stuff, multi-material tolerant, good temperature stability and good fling-resistance. Alec.
I think you made the right choice with grate black but if you do decide to use copperslip...there are a lot on the market that are absolute rubbish ..after years of messing with these in sliding callipers on cars ...the only one to use is this one: http://www.molyslip.co.uk/copaslip.php above is also available cheepish on ebay
@Mark Jones The grate black is holding up ok so far. Fingers crossed. Thanks for the tip Mark and I'd be very interested to hear what sort of failings you've noticed in some copperslip type lubricants. Cheers, John
The cheaper ones just did not exist on the pins in the callipers six months after they were done..it was gone and the pins were semi seized, must have melted out, to boot, I think the stuff contaminates the pads when it does that ,,,,,,the moly one is good for a few years or up until the next pad change. I have a rover with disks front and rear, the rears even when spot on , only make something like 22% on the rolling road test for handbrake efficiency. cant remember but I think 17 % was a fail. usually ended up replacing the pads, to get it through every year with only 8 - 10,000 miles on them so every year I ended up pulling them apart after failing the MOT one of the ones to avoid ...is COMMER...I cant remember the others No problems after the moly stuff MY other cars from the past had the same problem of the grease disappearing....did not work it out until I got this rover.
@Mark Jones Can't beat personal experience. I'll make sure I've some of the stuff you recommend in stock. Thanks again.
Ive used a brake caliper grease on calipers on an isuzu4wd before and it works great. Should be fine on these as well. Auto parts shops sell it in single use pouches so quite cheap. Its synthetic waterproof and a melting temp well above what a normal calliper should ever get to
Hi, I use a Teflon based grease, recommended by my o-ring supplier, called Super Lube. It seems quite light, but has stayed put for the couple of years I've been using it. The tube says it's good to 450 deg F (approx 340 deg C.) The hottest things I use it on are the o-ring in the regulating valve on a Coleman 442 and the o-rings inside Svea 123/Optimus 8R fuel cap SRVs. So far, so good... Rick C
I use a marine high temp grease on just about everything I own.Got a bunch of it for free.It's water proof and heat resistant.We packed some trailer bearings with it a few years ago.When we towed the trailer 200 miles at 70mph we lost a bearing cap.The grease did not get slung out of the bearings at all.Most other bearing greases would have been slung out and all over the side of the boat on the trailer.
