grease for fittings

You're going to hear plenty of suggestions on this topic Duff including any thing out there today is better than any thing sold years back. I use Wolf's Head Red. Hi temp, water resistant the works in a can.
 
One thing to keep in mind is that grease base formulas IE Moly, Lithium, & etc. should not be interchanged. so use what ever you choose consistently. I don't know what the pitfalls would be but I know most grease cartridges have that warning on them. Back when your car was new grease was a mixture of soap and oils.
 
J Franklin said:
One thing to keep in mind is that grease base formulas IE Moly, Lithium, & etc. should not be interchanged. so use what ever you choose consistently. I don't know what the pitfalls would be but I know most grease cartridges have that warning on them. Back when your car was new grease was a mixture of soap and oils.
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There is grease that has oozed out and it is red...so should i try to get all of that out first ,being i don't know what kind it is?
 
I don't know how to tell what you may have. I guess I would just start out with a standard chassis grease and stick to it. If you know who did the last job they might be able to tell you. Maybe it really is not all that important. when you are at a parts store read some of the labels. maybe you will spot a red grease you might want to use. There should be others, more knowledgeable, around this forum to add to this topic.
 
There were only 4 grease cups on a stock, early factory Model T - one at each rear outboard axle bearing, one at the steering bracket and the other on the early fan shaft. The fan hub was later modified to use semi-fluid grease that was put in an access hole stopped up with a brass plug. All other lubrication points used motor oil.
 
There are two other grease cups. One for the drive shaft bushing, and a giant one for the universal joint.
 
Charlie B is right: the cheapest, crummiest lousiest crappy grease that is made today is many times better than the best stuff on the market in 1925.

If you are made of money, then buy the most expensive stuff you can. If you don't feel like throwing your hard earned cash down a rat hole, just use the least expensive grease you can find, it will be fine. There is no long term study that can be pointed to that will prove that the friction you encounter on any of those lube points will cause any damage or suffer any ill effects using Brand X over Brand Y.

And if by an off chance you do indeed find a study that Brand X is superior to Brand Y, I'll wager the study was prepared by folks affiliated with Brand X in the first place and as such makes their claims suspect at best.
 
How about that? My 100th post, and all of a sudden I am a 'senior member.' I guess that means that anything I spew is now taken as Gospel, being a senior member and all...
 
CONGRATS Old Senior Motor Guy... did you make Belvidere??? If so, I missed you! Was there Saturday from 0800 - 1300hrs. ws
 
Yachtsmanbill: yes, was there myself on Saturday fm approx 10AM through 2:30PM. Had my two REO's, one red, one blue, the red one made a circuit around the grounds about once an hour or so, kinda hard to miss the ol' gal. I wasn't driving it though, my partner in crime was in the driver's seat.
 
Missed it! But I was sitting by the DJ trailer having a pop and the owner fired up that red speedster... it really barked when he bumped the throttle! Next time perhaps! ws
 
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