BEST grease for backhoe

[boomer1025]

Agree with jaotguy. Best is lube with 5% moly, but 3% is more common and will do the job. Moly is the black sticky stuff and just like the excess that you squeeze out of the joints when you grease that is magnetically attracted to your clothes and won't wash out, it sticks in the joints you lube.

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Cat & Amsoil both make a grease with high Molly content. For equipment that takes a beating, dozer, loader & backhoe pivot pins. It doesn't beat out like chassis grease. The NGIL 2 is thick and sticky. I keep 2 grease guns, 1 with Amsoil Off Road grease for the loader and automotive ball joints and steering linkage, the other with chassis lube for u-joints and general greasing of components.

 

[SPYDERLK]

Agree, to grease correctly you need to pump out all the old grease, so that is going to be a lot of grease. On your hoe or any equipment for that matter, key to greasing is getting it positioned so there is no load on the pin and you can get grease all the way around. When I grease my hoe correctly i'll go through at least 2 tube of grease. Cost effective EP grease high temp I'm spending about $3.00

Also, a snake oil that really works:

MILITEC-1 automotive and industrial grease for the ultimate protection

This stuf bonds with the surface metal and provides protection when most everything has squeezed out. I use 2 guns. Flush the joint with a cheaper grease then give a shot of the Militec-1 blended grease.

,,,,The Militec product is great at the metal to metal boundary layer -- ONLY there. Its a waste to add to an engine because there the lubrication is hydrodynamic. Literally, used right, an 8 oz bottle of the liquid can last a lifetime.
larry

 

[bdog]

Yes you need a grease with moly for pivot pins. Don't use moly grease on bearings. There is a huge difference between the two. I keep separate grease guns one with moly (I use Schaefer 238) and the other with mystic jt6. The moly goes in the pivot points on loaders, backhoe, tie rods, etc. The mystic goes in things with bearings. The moly grease doesn't flow really well and doesn't work good for bearings. It is almost like tar and stays where you put it which makes it good for pins.

 

[woodchipper]

Never had a problem with general purpose grease. One grease gun, and I do it all!:thumbsup: Never a problem even with a litle slack in pins. but, I do grease on a very regular basis. and that is at about every 10 hours of continuous work. works well for me.

 

[bdog]

If you grease a lot anything will work but grease is a fairly complicated substance. They have certain greases for things like bearings and then they have grease for things like pins where pound out is a problem. There is tremendous force on pins and grease can literally be forced or pounded out of the joint.

 

[CurlyDave]

go to CTC and pick up a tube of any MOLY based grease ( about 5 - 6 .00 a tube CDN ) used for CV joints ...

Now this is certainly going to make your pins and bushings last longer, but I don't use Moly grease for economic reasons. Not that the grease is expensive, the issue is that if I, or one of the dogs, tracks a blob of red multi-purpose grease into the house, I can clean it off the carpet. If a blob of Moly grease gets tracked in, my wife will insist on a new carpet.

In the grand scheme of things, replacing the carpet is a lot more expensive than replacing pins and bushings at some point in the far distant future...

 

[Gary Fowler]

I started using the Mystic grease (clear color) for the very reason of getting rid of the black blobs that get everywhere from the moly. I have found that it is very difficult to get off your hands so it should stick to the steel just as well. With the moly grease, you can remove the greasy film by just wiping with a rag, but not the Mystic. It takes a healthy glob of Orange goop to get it off so it is pretty well water proof also. This is just my opinion and not based on any reading material on it.

 

[Scooby074]

If there is a Cat dealer nearby you can pick up some of their 5% MOLY. Im no lover of Cat in general but that is really good grease for pins and slow moving parts. Sticks well and repels water. JD's 3% HD moly grease is decent too, especially if its available local.

 

[firemech]

Hey Langford where in Burk's Falls are you. We have the marina in Katrine:drink:

 

[LANGFORD]

Hey Firemech are you the owner. I may know your sister. I am about 6 miles from Burks falls on the 520