Another which oil?

The disco has spoken. I went to drain the swivels and nothing came out when I removed the plug. After a while there was a slight ooze. It appears that they have been given the grease treatment in a past life. I couldn't remove the level plug because it was rounded. So I suppose I will just leave the swivels alone until something goes wrong.

Brian, you can dip the swivels with a clean piece of wire to find out if they have enough oil, (it often blws past the seal into the diff) that'
It's something you have to do on the late model housings without a level and drain plug.
Jack the front end and put the steering on full lock for each side so you can get the dip stick past the swivel ball.

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Good thinking Brian ;)


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If anyone does want to use Moreys Oil Stabilser in the swivels/CV's I'd be adding 3-5% by volume MoS2 to beef it up.
Molybond used to sell sachets of the stuff in a light oil base that most spare parts shops stocked, so you can really go to town playing tribologist. (that's what the blokes in white coats with the PhD's are called that blend oils ;) )

Oh, and never, ever add Moreys to an engine oil or diff oil for that matter, all you will do is increase the viscosity and thin out the oils carefully balanced additive package.

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Seems Ive had a bum steer on Moreys, ive been using it for years in Toyotas but avoided putting it in my TD5 (luckily) but it is in my swivel housings.

I used to use Molybond (in the yellow tubes) or MOS2 additive, I've not been able to find it anywhere lately.

Looking for some for my final drives

Closest thing I could find in the Auto Store was "Liqui Moly Engine Protect"
the box mentions MOS2 but does not say the ingredients, I'd be happier if The product was Black but its a redex type liquid .

Anyone had any experience with this stuff, if its PTFE I dont want to use it.

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Seems Ive had a bum steer on Moreys, ive been using it for years in Toyotas but avoided putting it in my TD5 (luckily) but it is in my swivel housings.

I used to use Molybond (in the yellow tubes) or MOS2 additive, I've not been able to find it anywhere lately.

Looking for some for my final drives

Closest thing I could find in the Auto Store was "Liqui Moly Engine Protect"
the box mentions MOS2 but does not say the ingredients, I'd be happier if The product was Black but its a redex type liquid .

Anyone had any experience with this stuff, if its PTFE I dont want to use it.

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Are you sure you really, really want to be adding/playing blender ? :)

Molybond are still in business ITW Home Page, that Lubri-Moly engine protect is for engines and is a mixture of ZDDP, etc to beef up a normal engine oil and their MoS2 additives only contain around 3% moly according to the MSDS, so when you add it to your oil it will be quite diluted (which is probably a good thing)

From what I've read and been told there are better ways to enhance boundary layer protection and increase extreme pressure load capacity in diff and engine oils than using MoS2.

Moly is great in low speed and particularly sliding situations, eg driveshaft splines but isn't so good in rolling element bearings (it can be fatal) unless the particle size is around 3 micron.

Cheers, will leave well enough alone.
My 1HDT blew up at 540.000 klm, (cam seized) now Im wondering if it blew up because I altered the oil by adding Moreys, or if it lasted that long because I did??