What grease for cv joints

[autosri]

I need to get some grease for some drive shafts I'm about to fit I washed the white runny stuff out but have now realised all I can find is the thick black moly grease

Does anyone know what the white/runny cv grease is called

Thanks

[ANDY black s13]

if you try and get it from nissan I think you will call it expensive?,comma molybendium (what I call CV grease) will do,
used it for yonks on countless cv's never an issue,good for most jobs
not convinced the nissan stuff is that good tbh,micra's primera's etc around the same age could get noisy cv's at low miles

[paulsx]

Its mix of lithium grease and gear oil, went threw this when I did mine. I used white lithium grease and slightly thinned it with gear oil.

A lot of high end cars like porsches use a similar stuff

[autosri]

Your kidding me lol

[ANDY black s13]

Your kidding me lol

playing with thick grease is bad enough,if it's runny I can just see a big mess and everything is coated in it ,

[autosri]

The drive shafts are off the car so can do it in the garage so shouldn't be too messy

[paulsx]

Its not too bad if you have the gaiter attached at the small end and have the shaft in a vice you just pour it in from the top

[autosri]

Did you just use something like this then lithium ep2 grease and normal Gear oil

https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/302193224635

[autosri]

Also how much do you put in I notice a lot of the cv joint grease packs are 50ml but that seems like very little

[paulsx]

Yes the stuff I got was very simular, I think the manual tells you how much to use, I gathered up how much there was out of one of the joints and adding a bit. From memory it was about 3/4 of a cup full.

50ml is just to top a joint up when a new boot is fitted, they take more if you have cleaned it all out etc

The stuff is called liquid or semi liquid grease and its generally lithium soap based if that helps

[autosri]

I've got a couple of 400g tubes of ep2 lithium grease to use Il scroll through the FSM thanks

How is yours going anyway

[paulsx]

Lol mines gone lol.

Got made a good offer for it and let it go, after 17years I am finally 200sx less lol

[autosri]

Oh right I wasn't expecting that lol