In the past, when I've been getting ready for a brake job, I've normally grabbed one or two of those little packets of brake grease at the parts store counter. I use the orange CRC goop on the back of pads, but always like to pull the sliding pins, clean and grease them, and also put a bit of grease on the pad ears or any other pad sliding surface(not sure if that's the right practice or not, but it's also very unusual that I have squeaky brakes or have any trouble getting pads/hardware out at the next pad change).
The other day, I spotted a big tube of something called Sil-Glide on the shelf that seems to report being more or less the same thing as the little packets(a high temperature silicone grease for sliding surfaces). I grabbed it, but I can't seem to find a lot of references to using it as a brake grease. Does anyone use this stuff for this application? If not this, what do you suggest that I can buy in bulk that will do a similar job?
There's some motivation behind my question in that I'm getting ready to do a full poly bushing job on the MG, and most of the advice out there is to grease the inside of the bushings with a silicone brake grease(or the "magic sauce" some bushing makers supply that looks just like it) to prevent sqeaking down the road. I'm using graphite impregnated bushings that are not supposed to have that problem, but the "belt and suspenders" approach seems right. I'm also wondering if this grease can work in that application.
The other day, I spotted a big tube of something called Sil-Glide on the shelf that seems to report being more or less the same thing as the little packets(a high temperature silicone grease for sliding surfaces). I grabbed it, but I can't seem to find a lot of references to using it as a brake grease. Does anyone use this stuff for this application? If not this, what do you suggest that I can buy in bulk that will do a similar job?
There's some motivation behind my question in that I'm getting ready to do a full poly bushing job on the MG, and most of the advice out there is to grease the inside of the bushings with a silicone brake grease(or the "magic sauce" some bushing makers supply that looks just like it) to prevent sqeaking down the road. I'm using graphite impregnated bushings that are not supposed to have that problem, but the "belt and suspenders" approach seems right. I'm also wondering if this grease can work in that application.