Re: Maintenance
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To be sure, nobody is reinventing any wheels. Owners do encounter legitimate trouble with their mounts.? The best lube may not be universal.? ?? People in climates other than LA area do see extreme temperatures, and their stock grease/lube from the factory may not suffice.? ?LA is a wonderful place to live and work.? Never snows, hardly ever rains.? It's why 20M people are crowded in there.? The heavy molyD based lube for the bearings might be ok in that benign climate.? (Though Chip who lives there does not agree even then...) For the desert like Aizona, temperatures can change by 100F during one day.? That does not generally happen in beautiful LA.?? A study by a member of the EQMOD group many years ago showed that SuperLube stayed the most slippery even at below freezing temperatures (the person put the stuff in their freezer to test it vs other types of lube).? SuperLube should be strongly considered the best for extreme weather.? This is what Chip has been recommending for years also. I live in Northern California, also benign weather...fog, frost, but little rain and zero snow.? Generally cooler than LA but it can also get as hot.? ?My mounts are left outdoors covered in multiple tarps. They will get to 100F in summer heat, and down to below freezing in the coldest winter nights...but not in a single day.? I have experienced light oils that are in some lubes eventually run out and got on my plastic clutch pads, making them slip.? I also went with Chip's suggestion of SuperLube, and I have not found any slipping of my clutches.? I have not re-lubed any of my mounts in years, unless I was installing new components.? (I did replace my plastic clutches with high friction type and these new ones also block out oil capillary migration. ) So: the factory does it's thing...it has not changed its process of making mounts.? It uses the same heavy grease as it has in the past.?? The needle bearings used throughout the mount do require a light lube to keep them free running.? Else they will "gum up" and be hard to rotate.? Please read yourself online about needle bearings and their maintenance.?? So owners in different climates should look out for either high friction in the axes rotation, or slipping clutch disks.? If you find these issues, try cleaning out any old dried lubricant, and try SuperLube.?? Chip earlier recommended this particular version of SuperLube (from Amazon):? Super Lube 41160 Synthetic Grease (NLGI 2) 14.1 oz cannister translucent white.? From Amazon it is $9.85 today with free shipping...? The stuff with "Syncolon" PTFE.? Resists wear, corrosives, dirt, dust, saltwater, water.?? Stay well, all!!!?? Michael On Tue, Aug 11, 2020, 7:22 AM Sonny Edmonds <sonnyedmonds@...> wrote: I kind of doubt I will be re-lubing my 811 in my lifetime. |
Michael Herman