Amsoil 2000 base oil?

[Tempest]

Does anyone know the base oil viscosity information on this grease? Amsoil lists it for every other grease but not this one.

Also, the Oxidation stability, psi - ASTM D 942 (100 hr/300 hr)?

And the penetration at 10K and 100K would also be nice.

 

[Pablo]

Base oil viscosity @ 40 degrees C – 53-65

Oxidation stability, psi (100 hr) – 2

Penetration, worked @ 10k and 100k – not tested

 

[Tempest]

Thanks Pablo.

The oxidation is a little disappointing but not bad. Their other greases are 0.

The base oil is very thin!

 

[Pablo]

It's a racing grease. Not necessarily a HD grease.

 

[Tempest]

The weld point and LWI is nearly the same as the GHD though, so the additives are making up for the thinner base oil well.

I picked some of the 2000 up for the next time I do the brakes/front bearings.

 

[Tempest]

Used some of this grease today on bicycle bearings and liked it a lot. It has nice "body" and is not runny without being tackified. Sticks well and leaves a film even if wiped off.

I also tried to use some of the Amsoil General Purpose that I bought in the 8oz. tube on the headset. I was not happy with this grease as a good amount of the oil had separated and it had little "body". Was difficult to work with by hand. I removed what I started with and went with the 2000.

 

[Johnny]

The Amsoil Racing 2000 Grease is an excellent wheel bearing grease. I have even used it to grease my ball joints. I now use their GHD grease on the ball joints because it contains moly. I could be wrong, but I don't think you can find a better wheel bearing grease.

 

[oilboy123]

I have used it on my road and mtn bike. I also use it on wheel bearings, tie rods and ball joints etc.

It has good high temp life
Series 2000
High Temperature Life (ASTM D-3527) hours 300

GHD 118 and GLC 160

 

[Johnny248]

I use the racing grease for my auto pistol. And it works nice. I also have it loaded in my grease gun, so it lubes the gimbal bearing on my boat, and whatever grease fittings I come across. So after reading this, is it really not good for tie rod ends and balljoints???

I used the amsoil water resistant blue stuff when I repacked my boat trailer bearings.

After looking at the amsoil site, why does the regular and hd grease have a better wash out number than the water resistant?

 

[pickled]

This grease is great for your front hub on a bicycle. I converted my mountain bike over last year and when I went to take the hub apart this year I looked at the condition and left it because it still looked like new. It's a very easy grease to work with and doesn't string for 10 feet when you pull the gun away from the fitting.

 

[Tempest]

Originally Posted By: pickled
It's a very easy grease to work with and doesn't string for 10 feet when you pull the gun away from the fitting.

I agree. That's something I noticed when I packed the bearings on my son's bike as well.