Caliper Slider Grease?

[Docara]

Hi All

I know you're all going to say RRG but I need to rebuild and pack out my calliper backplate slider pins - what other grease is suitable? I've looked at white lithium but the operating temperature is quite low (100deg)

Wil CV Moly be OK considering it doesnt bugger up CV boots and it has a high working temperature.

Thanks
MAtt

[aesmith]

Wish I had an answer, I was going to ask the same. I had a bad experience with car brakes where the grease caused the rubber to swell up and made it pretty much impossible to reassemble.

Since then I've used a marine synthetic grease called "Turbo Gel" which doesn't interfere with any sort of seal or plastic. But it's expensive and not readily available. I've also used silicone grease but I'm running short. Hence wondering what others use, there must be some automotive product that's suitable.

[garynortheast]

Er, red rubber grease. Not difficult to obtain and not overly expensive.

[Docara]

Aaaggh!!!! SILICON Grease thats whats been confusing me !!! I had a quick look around here by the time a got out it had transformed to Lithium (melting point about 100deg)

Anyway I digress.

RRG Is difficult to get hold of if your 200 miles from home in digs and no ebay account, your van is stuck outside London's emission zone and you have no transport because your digs are inside emission zone next to the job.

Now back to my original question I'm cleaning out the gunk from my backplate slider pins and the grease is black it is exactly the same feel as I used to use to pack CV joints high melting Lithium-Moly. This stuff does not react with the CV boot and lets face it it would show up quickly of it did.

My rational is as follows:-
A grease that doesn't react with 'rubber'
A grease that is not going to melt and seep through to the disk
Very easily to get hold off and can be used for other purposes.
As I'm not assembling components which might come in contact with brake fluid.

So can anyone thing of a good reason why it can't be used?

Matt

[Dunn-y]

I used some Lith-Moly grease in mine. Simply because I don't have much RRG but I have a huge tub of the Lith-Moly stuff.

[andrewsmith]

Use red rubber grease, most others react and swell the rubber that the slide run in.

[aesmith]

Aaaggh!!!! SILICON Grease thats whats been confusing me !!!
Silicon grease is pretty much completely inert and won't damage anything, it's used on seals for instruments and electronic, also watches. Won't melt either. However it's not that good a lubricant for high loads, which was also the concern I had about RRG which I've only ever seen used on the hydraulics and not on metal to metal surfaces. Having said that, one of the sliding pins on the caliper is metal to rubber in any case.

[maviczap]

Is it really that difficult to get hold of? None require an Ebay account

http://www.frost.co.uk/red-rubber-grease-500g.html

http://www.wemoto.com/parts/lubricant_grease/page1_12/

http://www.motorcycleproducts.co.uk/red-grease-brakes-p-12073.html?gclid=CNOnw5T5pr0CFcHnwgodZgQAUA

http://www.demon-tweeks.co.uk/motorcycle/grease/castrol-red-rubber-grease