Thread: What do you use.....

using oil till the start to leak, have one shot grease on the workshop bench awaiting, i hope it does not have a shelf life

I did use grease until I upgraded the CVs and fitted the Maxi lockers. I now have oil with no seal in the stub so it floods into the splines and wheel bearings. I'm using 80W140 though, not 80W90 as recommended in the book.

Paul

Been a while since I looked at my balls. There should still be some grease on 'em

How often should one check/replace the grease in the front hubs.

Its been 2 years since I purchased my 96 Disco should I be
checking her now?

And is it difficult to do


Cheers

Baggy

I've used grease for about 10 years or so now. Why? Well I got fed up of the seals p1ssing out oil all the time!

I've heard plenty of guys out in Oz whinging about the grease and reverting back to oil. Frankly, I've never had any problems. All the problems I've personally had in the hubs have been purely down to water & mud ingress.

The guys that were whinging were pointing their finger at the grease not lubricating properly and not getting into the places it needed to. The only thing I can see is that these guys only ever use their Landys for very short journeys every time - The grease would not have time to warm up and therefore flow more freely. I tend not to use my trucks for short journeys so therfore the grease has plenty of time to warm through.

Just a thought....

Mark.

Oil in both the 110 and 2a. Been using oil for 43 years in Landrover swivels and have seen no reason to change.
If the swivel seals leak enough to allow much oil out, they probably leak enough to allow dust in.

I use grease in mine, the LR one-shot grease (Ricks put that in when I got my maxi's re-fitted).

I normally use oil/Moreys combo and that works well. Some blokes in the club remove the end swivel seal (that bolts to the axle housing), jack one side of the LR up and pour the oil in so that oil is lubricating both CV's and 'sloshes' around while driving within the axle.

I can see shortcoming with this IMO and haven't practiced it so I'll stick to what I know.

Trav

I use Nulon extreme grease. it is a soft very tacky waterproof grease. I have drilled and tapped the oil filler plugs and fitted grease nipples. Each time the car is greased I squirt a couple of shots into the swivel housing. Might be full up by now but it does not leak out and there are no cv joint problems.
Ian