grease options

[911t Fanatic]

What are the best brands and types of grease for all of the bearings.

[911t Fanatic]

Got some swepco 101!

[rockerarm]

Like many things people will have brand loyalty. As an automotive tech, I have learned quite a bit on this subject at - Bob is the Oil Guy. I've been with VW/Porsche/Audi for 15 years and had been to the dealer schools and they don't teach squat about this. But basically, I believe you need two greases for our air-cooled cars. A moly enhanced grease for the CV's and a quality wheel bearing grease for the front and rear wheel bearings. As far as moly greases go the two top tier seem to be the Swepco 101 Moly and the RedLine CV-2. And there are others. Regarding wheel bearings, what you want is an NLGI "GC-LB" and the rating should be #2 for most climates. Pennzoil makes a very good grease called 707L. I've read a mans thread where it was his opinion that Valvoline's Synpower full synthetic grease was tops and at less than $10 for a tub available at Grainger makes this widely available. My thought is that since the rear wheel bearings are a labor intensive job to consider a quality grease spec'd for the long haul trucker, such as Chevron's Delo line. You may want to see if any petroleum distributors are in your area such as Exxon Mobil, Shell (pennzoil), or Chevron-Texaco. They all have fine products, informative web sites, and tech lines to call. Oh, and a grease you choose needs to be disc brake rated.
Hope this helps, Bill.

[911t Fanatic]

Can i use the swepco 101 on the wheel bearings?

[dmenche914]

many good choices of grease. One very important thing is to not mix grease from different brands/types. Some combination of greases can cause the grease to breakdown and fail in short order. thus it is critical to remove ALL traces of old grease unless you are dead sure positive in knowing you are replacing like for like grease.

Any disc brake wheel bearing grease will be fine in your car. the disc brake type grease is made for higher temperatures than regular wheel bearing grease. this is what you want to use.

[larrym]

for wheel brgs - this is important -

do NOT just repack the brgs without cleaning completely as noted in above post since incompatible grease bases will result in quick failure

do NOT wash the brgs in std parts cleaners & then repack without first washing all in hot soapy water

use any disc-brake wheel brg grease of any brand - most are moly-graphite type

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[rockerarm]

As far as I know only Ford spec's a moly grease for its wheel bearings. Not to say it can't be used in our cars. On grease worth considering is the Valvoline Synpower wheel bearing grease. On that web site, bobistheoilguy, a poster named Gokam, I believe, here in Los Angeles strongly favors this grease and backs it up with data. He stated this grease is easily available from Graingers for about $10 for the small tub.
How many 914 guys have repacked the rear wheel bearings in the rear diagonal arms? This synthetic grease might be an ideal grease for this application.
Hope this helps, Bill.

[EmptyGarage]

The bearing shop gave me loctite viperlube synthetic grease as a grease to pack my rear axle bearings. NL GI 2...GC-LB and y NSF H1

Is this suitable for use as automotive rear bearing grease?

[EmptyGarage]

I guess I was able to find the answer...magic of the internet.

What the letters mean

G - Certified for use in automotive wheel bearings
A - Good
B - Better
C - Best
L - Certified for use in automotive chassis
A - Good
B - Best

[914-6Porsche]

Huh. My rear wheel bearings are sealed.

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1970 914-6 #397 Original Owner

[EmptyGarage]

Turbo model has two non-sealed bearings.

[Mark Henry]

Originally Posted by 914-6Porsche

Huh. My rear wheel bearings are sealed.

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1970 914-6 #397 Original Owner

You can pull them apart...you just didn't try.