Highway_Star Posted June 8, 2008 Share Posted June 8, 2008 Right here's the story. I'm replacing both swivels on my Range Rover, balls, bearings, seals, CV's. The lot. I'm also fitting Bailcast rubber gaiters while I'm at it. So the quandry, EP90 or one shot grease? With the new seals and the gaiters, water shouldn't get in there, and ol shouldn't get out. So there's a point for oil. Oil will also be thrown around by the CV and do a thorough job of lubing the pins ( bear in mind that on ABS equipped Range Rovers it's a taper roller race at the bottom and a Railko bush at the top.) Should any water find it's way in there, it will be flushed out when the oil is changed at routine service. Now grease. Will do as good if not better a job of lubing the CV joint, certainly will not leak out past the new seals and gaiters. Not so sure it'll get thrown around enough to thoroughly lube that top Railko bush. (I had been running one shaot grease due to leaky swivels, and guess what? A top swivel bush went clunky!) Should any water find it's way in, it's all but impossible to get one shot grease out without stripping the swivel housing down. Over to you my learned comrades. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
western Posted June 8, 2008 Share Posted June 8, 2008 if the new swivels have a top fill plug & centre level plug & a bottom drain plug I'd go for EP90, if the new swivels only have a level plug then their meant for the 'one-shot' grease & will be teflon coated on the outer dome too. chromed ones are no longer available. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Highway_Star Posted June 8, 2008 Author Share Posted June 8, 2008 Well the one bit I'm re using is the housing, which has the drain, fill and level plugs on. The balls are new, and are Teflon coated. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SteveRK Posted June 8, 2008 Share Posted June 8, 2008 Once warm from driving the one-shot grease should thin sufficiently to be suitably dispersed around the innards i would have thought. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Les Henson Posted June 8, 2008 Share Posted June 8, 2008 Before deciding on oil or grease, you should consider 'down time' If you have oil in the swivels and your truck breaks down and spends months on the drive, then the oil will settle and things will start to rust above it. With grease - it tends to pretty-much stay put, so components are more protected. If you think you might spend a large amount of time broken down, then use grease. If you like to delude yourself, then use oil. Les. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mo Murphy Posted June 8, 2008 Share Posted June 8, 2008 I use grease now, it doesn't fall out. Thus no need to dismantle the axles to change swivel seals that people DON'T say need changing now Mo Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
muzaz Posted June 8, 2008 Share Posted June 8, 2008 is a mix of grease and gearoil ok? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
steve_d Posted June 8, 2008 Share Posted June 8, 2008 A previous thread on this subject also suggested EP140 oil as being the ideal compromise between oil and grease. Steve Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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