Chewbacca's Birfield Grease Guide
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Unfortunately this grease does not have any molybdenum additive in it, so according to the 80-series FSM it would not be suitable. Looks like a good grease for wheel bearings though.
Sorry about that.
Wheelingnoob said:
Good to know, about to to my dads. Thanks!
If the Valvoline Palladium has the rating and the Moly% to be right for the birfields and it's wheel bearing rated why would you need to run two different greases?
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There have been discussions about this. Most of them end with a decision on whether people are comfortable with running molybdenum in their bearings. I've never seen any proof that having molybdenum in wheel bearings caused any problems.
93Chewbacca said:
Fair enough, I'm going to use it in both applications and we'll see how it goes!
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Pros/cons of moly in wheel bearings? - Bob Is The Oil Guy
Looks like a discussion on the subject occurred in this link.
Hi 93Chewbacca,
I have been following this thread and the one you started on Bob is the oil guy and have found the Lubriplate SYN 3002 you recommmend available in tubes locally. I am getting ready to do the front and rear axle rebuild and have a couple of questions.
1) When you did your last service with the Lubriplate SYN-3002 did you use it for the wheel bearings as well or did you choose a seperate type of grease for wheel bearings?
2) Would it be appropriate for the rear axle service as well ?
3) Approximately how much grease was required?
Thanks,
Kevin
I have been following this thread and the one you started on Bob is the oil guy and have found the Lubriplate SYN 3002 you recommmend available in tubes locally. I am getting ready to do the front and rear axle rebuild and have a couple of questions.
1) When you did your last service with the Lubriplate SYN-3002 did you use it for the wheel bearings as well or did you choose a seperate type of grease for wheel bearings?
2) Would it be appropriate for the rear axle service as well ?
3) Approximately how much grease was required?
Thanks,
Kevin
klstclair said:
I used 4 standard sized tubes of palladium to do the birfs, wheel bearings and trunnion bearings. HTH
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Hi Kevin,
I am looking at the spec sheet for the SYN 3002, but I don't see any wheel bearing approval ratings. Typically, if a grease is approved for wheel bearings it will have a rating such as: GA, GB or GC (GC being the highest rating available).
https://www.nlgi.org/product_certification/
I ended up purchasing one grease for my Birfs and a different grease for my wheel bearings.
I think the SYN 3002 would be a great choice for the Birfield joints, but it's probably not an optimal product for the wheel bearings because of the lack of a NLGI wheel bearing rating.
I'm not sure exactly how much grease it takes to fill the Birf housings (4 tubes sounds right, Gadjeep), but its supposed to be about 3/4 full.
Enjoy!
Lubriplate wheel bearing grease
Update: I called my local Lubriplate distributor and they have Lubriplate Synxtreme HD-2 which is rated (GC-LB) for wheel bearings and other high-speed bearings. I will give this a try with the Synxtreme HD-2 in the wheel bearings and the SYN-3002 in the Birfs.
Thanks everyone for all of the assistance and time each of you spends to make this great information resource available. It constantly amazes me how much great information is available on this forum.
I am looking forward to a good weekend rebuilding axles to kick off my vacation and finish it up with a trip to Slee to get the Auto transmission fluid exchange done!
Kevin
Update: I called my local Lubriplate distributor and they have Lubriplate Synxtreme HD-2 which is rated (GC-LB) for wheel bearings and other high-speed bearings. I will give this a try with the Synxtreme HD-2 in the wheel bearings and the SYN-3002 in the Birfs.
Thanks everyone for all of the assistance and time each of you spends to make this great information resource available. It constantly amazes me how much great information is available on this forum.
I am looking forward to a good weekend rebuilding axles to kick off my vacation and finish it up with a trip to Slee to get the Auto transmission fluid exchange done!
Kevin
It said 5% on the front so I said why the hell not... Especially for 5.49!
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BCR4619 said:
Cool! Where did you find that?
My local Chevron Cardlock with a storefront, they stopped stocking it on the shelves but you just have to ask them to order it in and it's usually takes a week or so to get it.
They also have a 3% version.
When I get around to it I will pull up a data sheet unless you beat me to it.
They also have a 3% version.
When I get around to it I will pull up a data sheet unless you beat me to it.
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This stuff looks perfect! Plus they have a synthetic version too
I will add it to the list. Thanks for the post!
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Added a link to the data sheet at the top of this thread. Thanks!
No worries.
Of course how I find out there is a syn version... I will have to ask about that next time.
I asked if there was buckets instead of tubes and he said I can get you a pail... A little much I thought
Just a little follow-up on my grease adventures...
I just recently did my front end and had two types of grease kicking around, 4 of the Delo and 2 of the Canadian Made Nimco stuff found at Princess "Power Fist" Auto. I noticed that the Delo if freaking sticky/stringy and firm while the Nimco stuff was a lot more "wet n sloppy" so to speak and not as stringy.
I dont know if any of this matters but thought I would post it up!
Cheers All!
I just recently did my front end and had two types of grease kicking around, 4 of the Delo and 2 of the Canadian Made Nimco stuff found at Princess "Power Fist" Auto. I noticed that the Delo if freaking sticky/stringy and firm while the Nimco stuff was a lot more "wet n sloppy" so to speak and not as stringy.
I dont know if any of this matters but thought I would post it up!
Cheers All!
