Thread: Use of graphite or moly in diffs?

Originally Posted by PhilipA

I personally met a VC Commodore driven from Singapore to KL with no oil but treated with Nulon( publicity stunt for launch in Malaysia) when I was a Trade Commissioner. I have no relationship with Nulon.
To answer the question on lifters, they fitted solid ones.
The car had a radiator hose blow off while idling on the causeway, yet still made it to KL with no oil. It was a wreck when it got there , but get there it did.

that show that teflon is good in that usage.

The website that debunked Teflon I referred to earlier also shed some interesting light on this "old one"......

.......Nulon did the same with a Commodore driving from Sydney to Melb. sometime in the 80's.......lots of publicity and boy!, did they flog that in their advertising........not these days though, ever wonder why on earth not? .......

......Coz in the U.S. Briggs and Stratton Co. did a public demo wherein they took one of their engines, new, ran it in as normal, then drained the oil out and then ran it for "x" number of hours or even days.......it ran OK........was totally f****d at the end of it, but it did run the distance.

I did some research yesterday to see if there were any recent unbiassed tests.
I didn't find much but I did find that Du Pont now sells a line of greases an lubricants containing Teflon.
www.dupont.com/lubricants/en/literature/pdf_files/H-79785-1.pdf .

They also now do greases for bicycles which to me would imply that in this case teflon is OK in roller bearings.
http://www.sandsmachine.com/pace.html

Now Du Pont at one stage came out with a statement that Teflon was not effective in engines, but seeing they sell a grease, and talk about anti scuffing etc etc one would have to assume that they see benefits in Teflon in gear lubrication.

Even though Byron selectively quoted me ( not a politician are you?) , my point was and is that even though Teflon might not be useful in engines it is OK in transmissions.
Seeing no one has come back with a source for Molyslip or similar, I will keep using my Teflon.
Regards Philip A