Grease for Fork Stanchions?

claret73

I have a pair of 1995 Judy XC's & have stripped them to rebuild. I now have sorted out the replacement springs & damping cartridge, so am now going to rebuild but the manual & Tech articles I've found for maintenance states 'Non Lithium Grease' for the internals of the legs & stanchions. What can I use? What's used by shop mechanics? Anything else I should be aware of?
Cheers for any advice...

nicklouse

buzzys slick honey. Manitou M prep, Red rum etc etc... or any other fork grease.

arthur_scrimshaw

This should do you, I use it for non specific greasing!!

http://www.halfords.com/webapp/wcs/stor ... a&istBid=t

edjo

doesn't qualify as Castrol LM is a lithium thickened grease - don't use it!

nicklouse

Arthur Scrimshaw wrote:

This should do you, I use it for non specific greasing!!

http://www.halfords.com/webapp/wcs/stor ... a&istBid=t

and forks are very specific.

the only fork that it could be used on is one that has very few moving parts.

so as above

Dont use it.

gtd.

Rock Shox judy butter ?

The Rookie

Castrol 'red rubber' grease is very good for sliding joints, commonly used for high end damper bearings on cars (and its waterproof), so should be ideal!

I use it on the STi dampers on my Subaru.

Simon

arthur_scrimshaw

nicklouse wrote:

Arthur Scrimshaw wrote:

This should do you, I use it for non specific greasing!!

http://www.halfords.com/webapp/wcs/stor ... a&istBid=t

and forks are very specific.

the only fork that it could be used on is one that has very few moving parts.

so as above



Dont use it.

:oops: oops! Well at least I learnt something (again)

claret73

Cheers all for the info...

I've found something on CRC which I think I'll get...

http://www.chainreactioncycles.com/Mode ... delID=3150

benpinnick

+1 for judy butter. That way your old school forks will be properly authentic.