This past weekend I decided to change my brakes on my truck and with the exception of stripping a slide pin everything went well. I installed a helicoil which worked out a lot nicer than i expected. When the time came to reassemble everything i guess my knowledge just wasn't enough and i greased my slide pins with molykote m77. I now know that is not the proper product. Next week sometime i plan on taking them back out, cleaning them well and applying the proper stuff. I did some research and found that sil glyde and plastilube are two good products and i already had an amazon order ready so i just threw some plastilube in the cart. Well it arrived in the mail today and the back label says in red, "Never apply to rubber parts".
Now im confused because I know people use this stuff with success every day. My plan was to replace the slide pin boots as well as i noticed the original ones were worn and it was somewhat difficult to get the pins to slide in them freely. Is the plastilube okay or should i save it for something else and pick up some sil glyde somewhere?
Now im confused because I know people use this stuff with success every day. My plan was to replace the slide pin boots as well as i noticed the original ones were worn and it was somewhat difficult to get the pins to slide in them freely. Is the plastilube okay or should i save it for something else and pick up some sil glyde somewhere?