What's in your grease gun???
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burbguy82
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I ran royal purple grease in an 3500 truck, got rid of truck with 230k miles, factory ball joints, factory steering components, all with RP grease.
chevron starplex ep2 gun 1
castrol pryoplex gold ep2 gun 2
castrol pryoplex gold ep2 gun 2
B’laster HD grease. HD doesn’t sell WD-40 Specialist anymore. Per the TDS, it’s also an over based calcium sulfonate grease.
Timken grease is good,but for the money i still would recommend Mysyik Jt-6 red or blue semi-syn. grease, ( easy to find) ,there are many good greases on the market,, also to note Mystik makes calcium based grease too,,so does Amsoil. if want to try something different but has a good following among the farming and construction community go look at Cenex oils and greases,,i believe Axel makes their grease ,which is some exceptionally good grease. Kendall L-427 is a worthy mention in the automotive crowd.
Where the Timken grease shines is in it's low operating temp. Mystik JT-6 red has an operating temp of -10°F to 325°F. This is pretty typical for non-synthetic grease. Even many synthetic greases don't go much lower. The Timken GR-224 grease has an operating range of -40°F to 300°F. For people who live or travel in areas of the country where it drops below -10° in the winter, this is important. Most dont think about the low temp performance of their grease, but when it gets down to the limiting temp of the grease they turn to a hard waxy substance. Churning in operation will eventually warm them up enough to flow, but until that point is reached bearings can skid, and lubrication is poor to non-existent. Along with the wide operating temp range, the Timken grease has excellent specs overall.
Cost-wise, the Timken grease is $5.49 per tube from Summit. Thats where I bought mine. I got 6 tubes to spread the shipping cost. To the door it was around $10 per tube. Mystik JT-6 red is $8.99 per tube from O'Reilly's. Overall, not much difference unless you buy one tube at a time.
The best grease out there, on paper anyway, has to be the Red Line CV2. $16.63 per tube from Summit. -100°F to 500°F operating range, and an unbelievable 800°F drop point! Wear specs are in line with other super high quality greases. Timken GR-226 is their synthetic "racing" grease. It has excellent specs as well, although temps don't go as low (or high) as the Red Line product. Its spendy at $29.99 per tube. So, if the Red Line CV2 works as good as the specs suggest, it would be THE best grease out there, particularly for the money.
Most manufacturers offer synthetic products that have decent specs, but they generally don't go much below -40°F, if they get down to that at all. For the cost difference, as well as the excellent wear performance and other specs, the Timken GR-224 can't really be beat.
Gun #1 has my last tube of Delo EP #2. That will be replaced with Mobil XHP 222.
Gun #2 has Yamalube for the new outboard.
Gun #2 has Yamalube for the new outboard.
Cal. 45
Some BITOG guys use M1. Vavaroom uses an M3?
