First post and I know very little about grease, so please excuse if the vocabulary is amatuer. I'm servicing a 1974 Maserati Bora. A beautiful car but some engineering fubars to be sure. One of them is extreme temperatures in the engine bay (mid engine with poor air circulation) and nearness of the exhaust header to the shift rod's needle bearings and u-joints (7 of them!), and CV joints inches from a hot exhaust pipe about 6" away.
I can wrap the exhaust pipe but wrapping the header would be a challenge.
The issue that many owners report with this car is that the needle bearings either get dried out due to extreme heat or the rubber seals actually expand and possibly explode from the heat. The CV joint boots which have a lot of grease contained within make a huge greasy mess of the entire engine compartment when they blow out from heat.
I have two pounds jars of Redline CV-2 red grease from another project. Their spec sheet says its operating temp is up to 500c and dropout is 800F. I've been reading here that moly greases are not ideal for needle bearings but in this application theres little pressure or rpms just a shift rod rotating a few degrees in and sliding in and out an inch or so in the bearing. Removing, disassembling, greasing and replacing the shift rod is not a job I ever want to repeat. So its gotta stay useful through extreme heat and over many years ideally.
CV-s is actually designed for CV joints so I assume it will work good in that application.
Thats the situation, so my question is: would the Redline CV-2 be a good choice for both these indications? Thanks.
I can wrap the exhaust pipe but wrapping the header would be a challenge.
The issue that many owners report with this car is that the needle bearings either get dried out due to extreme heat or the rubber seals actually expand and possibly explode from the heat. The CV joint boots which have a lot of grease contained within make a huge greasy mess of the entire engine compartment when they blow out from heat.
I have two pounds jars of Redline CV-2 red grease from another project. Their spec sheet says its operating temp is up to 500c and dropout is 800F. I've been reading here that moly greases are not ideal for needle bearings but in this application theres little pressure or rpms just a shift rod rotating a few degrees in and sliding in and out an inch or so in the bearing. Removing, disassembling, greasing and replacing the shift rod is not a job I ever want to repeat. So its gotta stay useful through extreme heat and over many years ideally.
CV-s is actually designed for CV joints so I assume it will work good in that application.
Thats the situation, so my question is: would the Redline CV-2 be a good choice for both these indications? Thanks.
