Any suggestions for greasing my own bus?

[belfert]

I suppose I'll have to call the local Mobil distributor tomorrow and see if they will even sell to the public.  Maybe they can suggest which one of various moly greases Mobil makes that will work for the application.  I assume they could ship the grease to me to avoid the 60 mile round trip and two hours of time.

Amazon sells some Mobil greases, but the price per tube seems really high to me.  Some are $15 per tube with the included shipping.

[chessie4905]

Confusing, huh?there is also Mobil Delvac extreme non moly grease.

[dtcerrato]

 Since I acquired a few cases (24 tubes/case) in an earlier time of a product called Premalube moly EP grease and a 5 gal bucket of Kendall Super Blue wheel bearing grease - those products got married to the bus (but are kept in the pit) and haven't had to buy grease for decades. Yep old dried out grease in our bus for 42 years w/o issue...

[luvrbus]

Moly (Molybdenum) is a not a petroleum product it doesn't dry out it is more like lead and sorta looks like lead in the mines the stuff is used for everything even in food,there are Molybdenum mines everywhere here in Idaho

[belfert]

I finally got my bus greased today.  I had intended to do it a week or two ago, but I got offers from folks to help me with other things on the bus and didn't want to turn them down.  There aren't near as many grease zerks as I thought.  I used the chart in the maintenance manual and went to town.  I looked for any additional grease zerks because the book missed the slack adjusters.  I didn't find any other grease zerks not in the book.  (It doesn't appear I have radius rod bushings that are supposed to take a lot of grease.)

The strange thing is I only used one tube of grease.  I expected to use three or four tubes.  It appears others have been greasing to excess.  There are layers of old grease on most everything.  I simply hit the trigger on the Dewalt grease gun until grease just started to ooze out.  Two of the joints in the steering system appear to be missing grease zerks.  There seems to be a hole for a zerk, but no zerk.

I found I have to replace one of my rear relay valves as it leaks a bit while the brakes are applied.  I got it out and will take it to Fleetpride tomorrow.

[sledhead]

this is the reason I like to do as much of the maintenance on our coach as when you are under there you might see something else that needs attention
there is always something

glad you got it done and it wasn't that bad was it

dave 

[belfert]

The bad part is I backed into my garage and pretty well crushed the gutter.  Luckily, I was barely moving or I might have pushed the garage off the foundation.  The garage isn't in the best shape and I plan to tear it down in a year or two to build a much larger garage that will hold the bus.

There is a 20 foot concrete pad in front of the garage that I wanted to park the bus on there so I could use my creeper to get under the bus.  My bus has a lot more ground clearance than most buses and no air bags to worry about crushing me.  I put some large wood blocks underneath when I jacked up the front to grease the kingpins and such.

[dtcerrato]

Keep the possibility of a blown tire in mind. Block under the axle so it won't come down in a tire failure.
Just saying...

[belfert]

The front was blocked under the structural member that the maintenance manual says to use for jacking.  A tire failure wouldn't have done anything.  The rear has three tires on each side so very little chance of three tires blowing at once. 

[Busted Knuckle]

2 Brian find out if those 2 joints are missing the zerk because it just came out, or if they are broken off. If broken off it might be a little PIA to get the old ones out, but either way you need to replace and grease them. And I agree lots of people OVER grease things badly!
  BK 

[chessie4905]

Under drivers compartment on GMC's, expect to find a pile of 3 to 5 pounds of old grease, below clutch and shift linkage. Also the shift rod tower between engine and bulkhead rarely sees grease. Thats why so many 4104's have worn out bellcranks. Those bellcranks btw, have needle bearings in them