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RONIN FC 03-10-2005 05:00 PM

What is good assembly lube to use? And what do you use on the plates?

guitarjunkie28 03-10-2005 05:22 PM

i use oil and wheel bearing grease. grease to keep the seals in place and lube up the stationaries, and oil for everything else. my motors typically only smoke for 2-3 minutes on initial startup, and the last one i did only smoked for about a minute and a half.

mike_rudy 03-10-2005 06:42 PM

i use grease to keep seals in place and i lube everything else with lucas oil air tool lube

rfreeman27 03-10-2005 09:20 PM

motor oil on the plates, vasoline to keep all the seals in place.

BDC 03-10-2005 09:27 PM


Originally Posted by rfreeman27' date='Mar 10 2005, 07:20 PM
motor oil on the plates, vasoline to keep all the seals in place.




Lucas Engine Oil Stabilizer on everything.



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guitarjunkie28 03-11-2005 12:30 PM

^ does it smoke a whole lot? i've used that in my oil in hte summertime for years.

GMON 03-11-2005 01:07 PM

Oil and vasolene baby https://www.nopistons.com/forums/pub...1047683329.gif

guitarjunkie28 03-11-2005 03:27 PM

but vasaline smokes too much and doesn't hold the seals in place as well as wheel bearing grease...you gotta use 10X as much too.

RONIN FC 03-11-2005 08:22 PM

Would it be bad to use a Red Line assembly lube or something of the sort? Why would vasaline or gear oil be better? Im not really worried about smoking for the first day or so.

rx7will 03-12-2005 07:03 PM

I use this stuff from an automatic transmission place. Its basically a tub of vasoline and a little atf and something to make the vasoline thicker. It was pretty good and holding the seals in place. And it only smoked for a few minutes.


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