lubricating grease & motor oil

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ironguy

Discussion Starter · Feb 20, 2009

The owners manual recommends lubricating a bunch of places, some spots with grease & others with motor oil.
What stuff do you guys use for this?

- For the grease will the multipurpose lithium grease sold at walmart work?
- Motor oil do you buy the gear oil? what weight? The manual doesn't recommend anything...so please help.

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branski

· #2 · Feb 20, 2009

i have typically used various random bottles of household oil i have laying around my garage, has worked fine for me for the last 3 years. general purpose anything should work fine

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Zach

· #3 · Feb 20, 2009

+1. vegetable works great

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frick

· #4 · Feb 20, 2009

Vegetable oil turns rancid, though.

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Zach

· #5 · Feb 20, 2009

frick said:
Vegetable oil turns rancid, though.

just rinse with water and reapply

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gearman

· #6 · Feb 20, 2009

Synthetic grease may be a tad better than lithium because it is more water resistant. As for the bits that require oil, whatever you put in your crankcase will work fine.

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