The Lubriplate I've always known and loved (same can going on 32 years
now, despite dozens of brake jobs where I used it for lubing the rear
wheel cylinder sliding area and tips of the brake shoes and the adjustor)
is basically white lithium grease.
--Andy
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On Wed, 23 Feb 2000, Brian Sanborn wrote:
>
> >Your description of the product sounds exactly like my aforementioned
> >Lubriplate! I wonder if it's supplied by Lubriplate under the NAPA
> >name???
>
>
> Hi Joe,
>
> Could be... I'll look tonight. They are not all the same. Some I found had
>some silvery graphite material in suspension. The NAPA stuff was creamy white
>and a little transparent. It stayed where you put it and could be "buttered"
>on parts like the bearings, camshaft and lifters. Great for packing the oil
>pump. I got an immediate prime buy cranking the engine minus the sparkplugs
>with the starter.
>
> Brian Sanborn
> '62 TR4 CT16260 Groton,MA
> TR4 Website www.net1plus.com/users/sanborn/home.html
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