Shell does not post wear rating/ specs on their grease.

[Chris142]

Looking for my next grease. I found the Shell Moly SD at tractor supply.

Wanted to see the 4 ball wear and Timkin specs.

Couldn't find any info online then I found this .

Reason being is that the red greases I have been using are not working out on my ball joints. Looking for something with Moly hoping to get more life out of them.

Thoughts?

 

[frankbee3]

Hi Chris,

I just discovered the Rotella SD grease at Tractor Supply and bought a couple of tubes of it. I decided to use this grease to try and get better life from the ball joints on the Ram 2500 Cummins truck. I use red grease for ball bearings and u-joints.

 

[frankbee3]

Being that I just started using the Rotella SD grease this fall, it will likely be a few years before I see any improvement..

 

[GSCJR]

I last got Chevron from the jobber for our grease gun, and I don't recall it being expensive. We use it in everything, the specs are here:

https://www.chevronlubricants.ca/en_ca/home/products/starplex-ep.html

It's what's in the white box BJs on my Legacy and they're still okay after four years of service; but I don't drive much. Good luck!

 

[spasm3]

I dont know about the moly, but i'm using Valvoline Cobalt in my travel trailer bearings.

https://sharena21.springcm.com/Publ...2d889bd3/7fa43c74-e29c-e711-9c10-ac162d889bd3

 

[JavierH19]

This has been working great for ball, u joints, splines, and and electric motor bearings. Cheap, great, and locally available couldn't ask for more. What red grease did you try exactly?

https://www.homedepot.com/p/Blaster...Cartridge-for-Grease-Gun-GR-14C-HDG/302972958

 

[Chris142]

This has been working great for ball, u joints, splines, and and electric motor bearings. Cheap, great, and locally available couldn't ask for more. What red grease did you try exactly?

https://www.homedepot.com/p/Blaster...Cartridge-for-Grease-Gun-GR-14C-HDG/302972958

The first set of Moog ball joints got Lucas red and tacky.. They did not last 30k even with greasing evety 2500-3000 miles.

I switched back to Valvoline red grease on the new ones but in the past I used Valvoline moly grease and ball joints lasted a lot longer..

The red seems fine for u joints though

 

[gman2304]

I’ve used Valvoline Crimson (red) for many years. The deck bearings and steering spindles on my 1998 JD mower are original.

 

[doitmyself]

You guys understand that grease color has absolutely nothing to do with composition or quality, correct? At my workplace there were a few years that Kendall L-427 Super Blu (just a common Lithium complex grease) was all the rage because "blue" must mean that it is better than the regular tan colored grease.

Any quality lithium complex GC-LB grease such as Mystik JT-6 "should" work good. I always thought that moly was more suited to extreme pressure, high shock load type joints such as loader pins, splines, etc.. I guess moly could benefit ball joints (are they high shock load?).

I wonder if the real problem is the quality, or lack of, in the aftermarket parts?

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[BrendanC]

i use exclusively lucas green for everything. when i couldnt get it during shortages i used Mobil synthetic and had a red river of melted grease everywhere.

 

[gman2304]

You guys understand that grease color has absolutely nothing to do with composition or quality, correct?

Correct….

 

[JavierH19]

i use exclusively lucas green for everything. when i couldnt get it during shortages i used Mobil synthetic and had a red river of melted grease everywhere.

Same, that mobil grease liquefied badly for me but it did work great when it was solid. Decided to use up the rest of it in the electric motors. That extra heavy duty green blaster grease I linked is pretty great in case you can't get the HD Lucas green