SIl-Glyde, Dow 111/3M Silicone Paste/Motorcraft dielectric grease, Toyota rubber grease - all will work. CRC sells a silaramic grease as well.
Disc brake slide pin lube.
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Sil-glyde is hard to come by in Canada. I have had great success with Wurth Silicone Compound. As far as I can tell it's very similar to 3M and sil-glyde.
Wurth has a store/warehouse in Mississauga, but probably have other locations as well.
Wurth has a store/warehouse in Mississauga, but probably have other locations as well.
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Originally Posted By: KrisZ
Sil-glyde is hard to come by in Canada. I have had great success with Wurth Silicone Compound. As far as I can tell it's very similar to 3M and sil-glyde.
Wurth has a store/warehouse in Mississauga, but probably have other locations as well.
The Wurth product is like dielectric grease... clear pure silicone grease. Sil-Glyde may contain silicone but it looks and feels different. For caliper guides in contact with rubber bushings/bellows I prefer Sil-Glyde and have used Plastilube as well in the past.
Sil-glyde is hard to come by in Canada. I have had great success with Wurth Silicone Compound. As far as I can tell it's very similar to 3M and sil-glyde.
Wurth has a store/warehouse in Mississauga, but probably have other locations as well.
The Wurth product is like dielectric grease... clear pure silicone grease. Sil-Glyde may contain silicone but it looks and feels different. For caliper guides in contact with rubber bushings/bellows I prefer Sil-Glyde and have used Plastilube as well in the past.
Originally Posted By: GMBoy
This is what I use and I feel it's the best and I've used the others
https://www.permatex.com/products/lubric...ts-lubricant-2/
"A 100% synthetic formula, coupled with real ceramic solids make this premium brake lubricant our longest lasting, most temperature resistant way to silence brake noise. Effective from -50°F to 3000°F (-46°C to 1649°C), this product maintains its lubricating integrity under the most extreme conditions. Resistant to corrosion and contaminants, it will not wash out. For metal-to-metal contact only. For metal-to-metal contact only. - See more at: https://www.permatex.com/products/lubric...h.1tqbksmL.dpuf
This is what I used too. Seems to be great stuff, no issues so far.
This is what I use and I feel it's the best and I've used the others
https://www.permatex.com/products/lubric...ts-lubricant-2/
"A 100% synthetic formula, coupled with real ceramic solids make this premium brake lubricant our longest lasting, most temperature resistant way to silence brake noise. Effective from -50°F to 3000°F (-46°C to 1649°C), this product maintains its lubricating integrity under the most extreme conditions. Resistant to corrosion and contaminants, it will not wash out. For metal-to-metal contact only. For metal-to-metal contact only. - See more at: https://www.permatex.com/products/lubric...h.1tqbksmL.dpuf
This is what I used too. Seems to be great stuff, no issues so far.
Originally Posted By: K20FA5
Originally Posted By: GMBoy
This is what I use and I feel it's the best and I've used the others
https://www.permatex.com/products/lubric...ts-lubricant-2/
"A 100% synthetic formula, coupled with real ceramic solids make this premium brake lubricant our longest lasting, most temperature resistant way to silence brake noise. Effective from -50°F to 3000°F (-46°C to 1649°C), this product maintains its lubricating integrity under the most extreme conditions. Resistant to corrosion and contaminants, it will not wash out. For metal-to-metal contact only. For metal-to-metal contact only. - See more at: https://www.permatex.com/products/lubric...h.1tqbksmL.dpuf
This is what I used too. Seems to be great stuff, no issues so far.
I bought some similar-sounding Bendix Ceramlube in Australia. which my online research suggested was the last word in brake goo tech, but it somehow got lost (customs?) on the way back to Taiwan. Unobtainable here, of course, like everything else.
Originally Posted By: GMBoy
This is what I use and I feel it's the best and I've used the others
https://www.permatex.com/products/lubric...ts-lubricant-2/
"A 100% synthetic formula, coupled with real ceramic solids make this premium brake lubricant our longest lasting, most temperature resistant way to silence brake noise. Effective from -50°F to 3000°F (-46°C to 1649°C), this product maintains its lubricating integrity under the most extreme conditions. Resistant to corrosion and contaminants, it will not wash out. For metal-to-metal contact only. For metal-to-metal contact only. - See more at: https://www.permatex.com/products/lubric...h.1tqbksmL.dpuf
This is what I used too. Seems to be great stuff, no issues so far.
I bought some similar-sounding Bendix Ceramlube in Australia. which my online research suggested was the last word in brake goo tech, but it somehow got lost (customs?) on the way back to Taiwan. Unobtainable here, of course, like everything else.
Originally Posted By: Ducked
I use some silicon grease that I bought in a motorbike shop in Rinku near Osaka airport.
IIRC, though, it had a fairly low temperature range (128C?)on the (lost) packaging, and may not actually be brake grease, though the counter guy said:-
HAI! Brakkuu-gris-UU!
which was a bit encouraging.
A translation by my GF's I-phone software says its for greasing the neck rings on fishing Cormorants that stop them from swallowing the fish. Cool.
Seriously. That's what it said. Gained In Translation, I assume.
I didn't want to use anti-seize since I'm not sure the oil in it is rubber compatible, so I rub the pins with aluminium foil which puts some aluminium dust on them, then I wrap them in PTFE threadseal tape.
Seems to work.
I'm now thinking if the brakes got REALLY hot (which would probably require them to be seized the way I drive) that PTFE might break down to fluoric acid, which would be bad.
I'll probably replace it with thin polythene next time I have the calipers stripped.
I use some silicon grease that I bought in a motorbike shop in Rinku near Osaka airport.
IIRC, though, it had a fairly low temperature range (128C?)on the (lost) packaging, and may not actually be brake grease, though the counter guy said:-
HAI! Brakkuu-gris-UU!
which was a bit encouraging.
A translation by my GF's I-phone software says its for greasing the neck rings on fishing Cormorants that stop them from swallowing the fish. Cool.
Seriously. That's what it said. Gained In Translation, I assume.
I didn't want to use anti-seize since I'm not sure the oil in it is rubber compatible, so I rub the pins with aluminium foil which puts some aluminium dust on them, then I wrap them in PTFE threadseal tape.
Seems to work.
I'm now thinking if the brakes got REALLY hot (which would probably require them to be seized the way I drive) that PTFE might break down to fluoric acid, which would be bad.
I'll probably replace it with thin polythene next time I have the calipers stripped.
Originally Posted By: KrisZ
Sil-glyde is hard to come by in Canada. I have had great success with Wurth Silicone Compound. As far as I can tell it's very similar to 3M and sil-glyde.
Wurth has a store/warehouse in Mississauga, but probably have other locations as well.
This is exactly what we use in our shop.
Sil-glyde is hard to come by in Canada. I have had great success with Wurth Silicone Compound. As far as I can tell it's very similar to 3M and sil-glyde.
Wurth has a store/warehouse in Mississauga, but probably have other locations as well.
This is exactly what we use in our shop.
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