Bearing + CV grease

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Ride_on
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Bearing + CV grease

Post by Ride_on » 23 Jul 2014 02:32 pm

I have to rebuild my CV joints and front wheel bearings and wondering opinions on grease specifications.

So far looked at
Redline CV2,
Phalank EP2M
Castrol BNS
Castrol LMX
Cheaper stuff

There are plenty of options to spend silly money on CV joint grease (eg £150+ for 500g), but I was wondering is there really much advantage with the higher priced ones or is it just marketing BS. For example Redline CV2 is £21/400g , but only about £7 in the US and some discussions about how it seperates quickly.

Most of what I have read on-line for advertising is unspecific and just seems to use marketing words like 'extreme' and 'race' etc. If there was a difference I would expect to see pressure or temp rating advertised, or is this just the usual dumbass marketing to dumbass and you have to look harder for engineering specs?

My Volvo dealer told me not to use normal grease in the bearings due to the temperature and pressure so I used Castrol BNS which has always worked well compared with the factory fit which does tend to suffer after certain miles or stress. I have now run out of this and need CV joint grease aswell.

Can you use the same grease in wheel bearings and CV joints or will I get better performance with different specs?

Will a £5/400g tub of Comma/Granvile/Car lube CV joint grease work just aswell as a £20/tub race spec?

This is for the restoration/360 Turbo project, the CVs have 200K mikes on them, some of which was abuse. I havn't checked the surfaces yet, but I will replace anything that doesn't look good, the rubbers were generally intact but have since hardened and split in storage.
1980 345 DL_______1987 360 GLE (project car restored to GLT spec and B230FT'd)
1984 360 GLT______1987 360 GLT
1983 360 GLS______1989 360 GLE
1985 340 GL_______1986 340 1.4
1985 360 GLS______1995 940 SE 2.3 Turbo Estate (daily)
1987 340 GL 1.7

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Re: Bearing + CV grease

Post by classicswede » 23 Jul 2014 11:47 pm

I would stick with Castrol stuff tbh
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