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Engine reassembly lube

I have used clevite bearing guard for years. You can get it on eBay or should be able to get it from an auto parts store
 
I just use that red assembly lube. I'd have to look at the bottle for a brand and specific product name.
 
Hi I use white assembly lube for engines and transmissions. It works good for me, but i'm sure there will be 20 guys along shortly saying it's the wrong stuff and to never use it L.O.L.
Regards Robert
 
Hi Billy Glad 2 of us are right I posted about using it on another forum, from the replies I got there you would of thought I was using nothing and tap water would of been better, than that white lube. nobody had a good word for using it!. Maybe they didn't like the fact it wasn't $100 a tube and NASCAR endorsed, Like a few expensive but not necessarily the best batteries L.O.L.
Regards Robert
 
Ive always used Lubri-plate or a mixture of half and half engine oil and stp. That is what they used in Vo-Tech. When Ive overhauled an engine I usually take the coil wire off or fuel shut off on a diesel and crank it over for a little while until I have oil pressure and then start it. At Vo-Tech, they did warn us about a guy at that time that had put a can of stp in the crankcase with the engine oil in an overhauled engine. The stp globbed in the bottom of the crankcase and went over the oil pump screen and you know the rest...
 
Thanks guys.

In the past I've used the red assembly lube like Randy said. I checked the stores in St Johns and all they had was the Lubri-plate white assembly grease so I went with that. I've put them together with 30W and came out alright but it was a Chevy v8 where I could run the oilpump and do a prestart pressure lube.

I wanted to see if there was something new and great. It's been a long time since I've done a rebuild. And it's to important of one to make a mistake.
 
you never use lithium/gun grease, Lubriplate or Lucas for the rod and main brgs, cam&lifter lube for the cam, light oil for the cylinders
 
I've always just used engine oil. Mainly because it was easier to find a new, clean container of oil than wondering what might in that 10 year old tube of grease!

On a flat tappet cam and lifter set, I go with the assembly lube that usually comes with the cam.

Now I would consider using grease on an engine that might be stored for a while before it was run.
 
I use the red lube, it's super sticky, I think it was made by permatex, but I couldent find the bottle in my garage. Last rebuild was a sb Chevy 400ci almost 20 years ago!
 
Been a full time engine mechanic for 35 years. Best thing I have ever found was old fashioned STP. If you build a engine and it doesn't get started for a few years no problem. Sicks like glue so you know you have lube until the oil pump and filter can do their job. I have pulled down engines that have run a minute or two but had problems with the oil pump or cooler so they didn't have any lube. Bearings didn't show any damage do to no oil. Old Timer taught me to use this back in the late seventies. I use 15/40 on the pistons and rings, 85/140 on valve stems and guides.
 
To take it a step further- I like to leave spark plugs, or injectors out, and crank the engine with no compression until I get oil pressure. At the same time, on a diesel engine I'll be getting the fuel system primed and bled right up to the injectors.
 
All I have ever used os good old STP oil treatment and been doing it for at least 40 years and have one sitting right here behind me that was started to be rebuilt but the boy ran out of $$ and it shows no signs of any rust any place and it has sat here at least 5 years
 
STP I assembled turbines always coated the bearings with it never lost one on startup never loast a engine either
 
I just use regular old lubriplate assembly grease. Haven't had any problems, used it on probably 10 diesel engines, and 15 or so gas engines I've rebuilt. Works good. After a short 15 or so minute warm up at half throttle, I take them out and work the heck out of them.

Ross
 

The high dollar shop that did a competition motor for me fifteen years ago uses assembly lube only very sparingly, only in a motor that they know won't get run for a few months. They knew of a situation where an oil passage got plugged with the assembly lube. Normally they use a higher viscosity motor oil, such as 15-40.
 
Yes,, Lucas is near like STP, and that mix works great with a lot of places,,sticky and smooth...
 
Robert I use to hear the same thing. Snake oil not worth using. But I figure if it was good enough for Raymond Beedle and the Blue Max crew. It was good enough for me. Also had a shop that built drag boat engines. Did welding for me at times. That was what they used.
 
Back in the 60's when near every one around me was building their own engines (Now most young people just play with their phones)..it seemed that some that used white lithium grease and let them set a while had issues with crank lube, we were thinking that that grease kinda dried up and clogged a crank oil passage..and of course we were all amateurs so that could have been some of it too ...
 
I use a mixture of STP and Marvel Mystery Oil on every engine i have built. Used the same mixture on my 135 massey just 2 years ago. Runs like a champ
 
I use lubriplate from the parts store I get all my stuff from, on my third motor using this stuff and no problems.
 
Built many engines, large and small, both gas and diesel. All I have ever used was a mix of engine oil and good old STP. As another post said, I have had one of the engines that fired up and had no oil pressure showing. Turned out a plug had gotten left out of one of the oil passages. Anyways, when I pulled it back down to find the problem, and insure there was no damage, all the bearings were still slicker than mole snot.
 
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