Honda Moly 60 Grease (60% Moly?)

[Woody]

Honda recommends a moly grease for thier motorcycles that is stated to be 60% moly. After doing some searches on this board, it appears the highest percentage moly grease I see referenced (that is not Honda brand) is somewhere around 3%-5%.

From Honda's web site:

Moly 60 Paste
New 60-percent moly grease formula.
Contents are solid and will not seperate at room tremperature.
Recommended for gears, bearings and other high-pressure/high-temperature applications.
Use on Pro-Link linkage where Moly 45 is recommended.
3 oz. $8.99

My question: Can this really be 60% moly? If so, are you aware of a differnet brand that would be comparable?

 

[GeorgeCLS]

One thing that industry does agree is that 3% to 5% (most think 5% is overkill, however) is optimum for moly additized greases.. Given that it adds a minumum of 10 cents/pound and that research has indicated that, as with asperin, if two asperins are good, four is not better..S
Same with moly... Methinks we have some mis-translation of Japanese technical description in this case... Although, one never knows!
George Morrison, STLE CLS
AV Lubricants Inc.

 

[tom slick]

what parts do they recommend moly for?

 

[Woody]

I would have to go through the service manual for a list (which is at home), but off the top of my head, splines.

 

[Ken2]

If they're talking about a moly paste, that isn't grease. Molykote G paste, for example, is a lube that is almost all MoS2, but isn't a grease. Buy the Honda stuff.


Ken