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Old 03-10-2005, 05:00 PM
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What is good assembly lube to use? And what do you use on the plates?
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Old 03-10-2005, 05:22 PM
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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.
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i use grease to keep seals in place and i lube everything else with lucas oil air tool lube
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motor oil on the plates, vasoline to keep all the seals in place.
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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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^ does it smoke a whole lot? i've used that in my oil in hte summertime for years.
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Old 03-11-2005, 01:07 PM
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Oil and vasolene baby
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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.
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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.
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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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