Wheel Bearing Grease Options

[George]

I couldn't find a thread on here anywhere about wheel bearing grease.

Anyway, I need some suggestions about what type to use - synthetic or what - for track use.

My car is used mainly for lap days - the longest sessions are 20 -25 minutes on the Mosport GP track which is about 2.5 miles long.

Thanks

George

[1LEThumper]

What kind of car? 4th gens you can't repack them at least as far as I'm aware...just replace when you notice they start to get loose. I don't know if there is a 'race' bearing for it like the C5s or not...but I do not think so.

As for the others, Moblie 1 syn. grease seems to hold up pretty good, RedLine also makes some and I want to say there is a CV grease out there but I can't remember the name of it. There are some exotic grease's out there but for most normal people those get the job done.

[George]

Sorry, I forgot to mention it's an 83 thirdgen with iron calipers. The hubs/rims get pretty warm so I was concerned about having good grease in there.

The car has 17" Ronal Hawk rims which are not the best design for cooling. Actually they're a lousy design because they interfer with the calipers on any of the big brake conversions so the best I can do is probably going to be 1LE.

So, Mobile 1 syn should be OK then?? It's not like it's being raced really hard but running on the track 20 minutes at a time is getting up there.

George

[slowTA]

I've been using the Valvoline synthetic stuff, but really don't have much to compare it to. I guess anything new that has a good name on the label will be fine.