Recent content by Recoil Rob

About 6 years late to the party but I just took apart my 25 year old SO set-up to clean the slides. The factory recommended paraffin, just rub it on the slides.

That's it then, it was under pressure, I'll back off on the spring thanks. I bought 6 tubes mail order.

A few years back, with the help of the knowledgeable folks here, I purchased 6 tubes of Schaeffer 274 grease to use for lubing my outboard and the wheel bearings on my boat trailer. It gets dunked in salt water once or twice a week over the season here in NY. A tube lasts me a couple of years...

All the research I did and charts I looked at said ACG is compatible with most everything EXCEPT clay based greases, which seem to be compatible with almost nothing else.

They're supposed to be the best for boat trailer axles that dunked.

I guess it's the "Spring Loaded Double Lip Seal".

Steve, With normal bearings and bearing buddies, grease gets pumped in the front until no more can go in and is kept under pressure by the bearing to force more in as it leaks out. Apparently you should repack bearings annually by tearing them down. With Dexter types the grease gets pumped in...

Thanks but I tracked down a guy in MI that's sending me 6.

You don't use Bearing Buddies with Dexter type axels, but thanks for the advice. I have them on my older trailer, they served me well for 20 years. Just pumped them full of whatever was in the gun at the time, never even repacked them. Now I know better and would like to use the right grease...

I think so. Thanks, Rob

I was just trying to make sense of Schaeffers line-up and it seems to me that 274 might be preferable since it's synthetic. But the big problem is buying the stuff. I called Schaeffer and it's only sold by the case (30 tubes), I called a couple of sales reps and either they don't carry it or...

Have a new boat trailer that came pre-packed with Texaco Starplex Moly MPGM2, "consist of a lithium complex soap thickened, multipurpose, extreme pressure (EP) greases compounded with a highly refined ISO 320 viscosity grade paraffinic base oil. Starplex Moly MPGM 1 and 2 contain 3% moly by...