What grease to use with poly bushings?
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What do you guys use that comes in a tube to use with a grease gun/ zerk fittings?
I really dont want to pull all the arms out of my daily to regrease the bushings...
I really dont want to pull all the arms out of my daily to regrease the bushings...
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The last time I had to deal with this, I couldn't find anything in a tube that held up long enough, or I worried about compatibility with the polly. What I ended up with was a cheap *** grease gun where I could manually load the cylinder with grease, and bought a bunch of and used that. It's sticky and messy as hell but it worked great. This was a while back on my 65 Mustang that was all polly bushings. I can't find the gun online right now but they are out there... I think I got it at Harbor Freight. I've also read that marine grade grease will hold up pretty well, but I never tried it. Hope that helps!
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I Green Greased ~half the bushings on my car last night (there were zerks on 16 of 22 bushings, but 4 were inaccessible (front outboard RLCAs and rearward FLCAs), and the RUCAs didn't have zerks). This stuff is impervious to chlorinated brake cleaner, Simple Green, Awesome, and Show Car brand Dyno Clean (local detail company's super bad spray cleaner). It took 3 washes with Dawn and Permatex Ultra Cherry to stop leaving finger prints on everything I touched, and I finally can't feel it on my skin ~3 hand washes and a shower later. It's not going anywhere. Use gloves when you apply this stuff (duh).
As long as it doesn't eat or soften the bushings, Green Grease is the answer.
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