can you mix grease and engine oil to create a thick paste?

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Can you mix grease and engine oil to create kind of a thick paste that can be put on with a paint brush as an anti corrosion type of thing for like bolt threads and such? Will it mix or not? Say you take half a tube of grease and mix it into a quart bottle?
 
My thinking is oil just comes off too easier and grease is too thick to be applied efficiently.
 
Originally Posted by motor_oil_madman
Can you mix grease and engine oil to create kind of a thick paste that can be put on with a paint brush as an anti corrosion type of thing for like bolt threads and such? Will it mix or not? Say you take half a tube of grease and mix it into a quart bottle?



Grease is an oil made into a paste. Its oil with a soap. You would be adding more oil to an oil in suspension. Anti-seize might be a better idea if grease alone is not working.
 
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I have done this with greases used for drive cables in RC boats. The original grease was tool thick and cause engine drag. I mixed it down with grease until I was happy with the consistency then it ran much freer. I mad a special pot of this stuff and it worked fine never seperated.

give it a try...
 
It's not fun if you're not trying to reinvent the wheel
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Originally Posted by motor_oil_madman
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Back in the late 1970's my dad said he used to spray vehicles undercarriages with a mixture of heavy weight gear oil and grease combined. It made a nice dripless spray. He would then put some gear oil inside the doors as well so it could protect the bottoms. Seemed to work well according to him.
 
Kawasaki specifically calls for the application of a grease thickened oil in their repair manuals. They give the formulation to make the paste (10:1 engine oil to moly grease) and specify where it is to be applied.
 
KISS For protecting bolts and threads, etc underneath, I just pump a blob of chassis lube onto the fitting and smear it around with a rag. After a while, it gets crusty with dirt.. No worries, wipe it off and start wrenching when you need to take it apart.
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Originally Posted by motor_oil_madman
Can you mix grease and engine oil to create kind of a thick paste that can be put on with a paint brush as an anti corrosion type of thing for like bolt threads and such? Will it mix or not? Say you take half a tube of grease and mix it into a quart bottle?

Why not? Done many times in the past. Once some road dust gets on it, that grease will stay there. Personally, I just smear some grease w/o the oil on the threads.
 
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Not for the same application but I mix grease and oil in the freehub in bicycles. Works great. Grease is too thick, oil is too light.
 
Originally Posted by NYEngineer
Not for the same application but I mix grease and oil in the freehub in bicycles. Works great. Grease is too thick, oil is too light.


Just use outboard motor lower end oil. It's the right thickness
 
Originally Posted by willbur
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Not for the same application but I mix grease and oil in the freehub in bicycles. Works great. Grease is too thick, oil is too light.


Just use outboard motor lower end oil. It's the right thickness


Excellent idea. Thanks.
 
Originally Posted by Rand
why reinvent the wheel? they make stuff for this.


Yeah, I wonder where in hades he comes up with these questions
 
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