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Axle grease experiments... Temps

BCkoots said:
What about a lithium grease? I have some, guess it wouldn't hurt to try. I'm not having axle heat issues but motor heat issues with a goat and 14t pinion.
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Try it dude. You never know it may work. My VERMEER grease is kicking ass son. Trial and error is the best experiment.
 
BCkoots said:
What about a lithium grease? I have some, guess it wouldn't hurt to try. I'm not having axle heat issues but motor heat issues with a goat and 14t pinion.
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Can't hurt to try as long as you monitor the friction being caused, just feel the axle case for heat. Otherwise stop by an autoparts stofe and spend the 3 to 7 bucks and pick a better greese that won;t break down as easy.




On a side note, my two rear spool bearings were dragging like mad, so I cleaned them and relubed the bearings and it all spins a lot smoother, just another thing to check.
 
im using a synthetic lube called Super Lube, its made by Synco Chemical Corporation. it is the best stuff for everything. its temp rating is -45 to 450f. my worms dont even get warm to the touch after 15mins of crawling. i also had to remove the extra shims. do a seach on it, because this stuff is amazing."thumbsup"
 
JPH Racing said:
I used Green Slime from Team Associated, seems to work awesome! "thumbsup"
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how many runs have you gotten on them and have you torn them down to see how much was left or how it looked?

got me thinking maybe the thinner stuff could be better for efficiency instead of fighting against it.
 
still in the break in stage, used drill to acquire my assumptions,
Im using 30 wt oil in diffs, with a custom gasket on the axle shafts that keeps my oil in the diffs, only quarter full, so that the spool always touches the oil. the case doesn't leak either.
( cut some rubber gasket material to slightly large than the inner axle diameter, then cut hole in middle for axle to go thru)

also noticed that just the corners of the spool was showing wear, this is not like setting mesh on my 1:1?......

oh yeah and thanks to all of the great info, checked and pulled the two extra spool shims. that helped loads with temp.

gotta lube tranny next any advice?
 
MX70 said:
still in the break in stage, used drill to acquire my assumptions,
Im using 30 wt oil in diffs, with a custom gasket on the axle shafts that keeps my oil in the diffs, only quarter full, so that the spool always touches the oil. the case doesn't leak either.
( cut some rubber gasket material to slightly large than the inner axle diameter, then cut hole in middle for axle to go thru)

also noticed that just the corners of the spool was showing wear, this is not like setting mesh on my 1:1?......

oh yeah and thanks to all of the great info, checked and pulled the two extra spool shims. that helped loads with temp.

gotta lube tranny next any advice?
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About the gear wear, check this link out & go to page 15 or 16:
http://bostongear.com/pdf/gear_theory.pdf
 
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