Clay based grease replacement

[Mike Sulley]

Hi all,  A complete newbie here.  Purchases a 2002 Marquis Amethyst this fall just in time to put it into storage .  Snowed the next day.  Like to do as much maintenance as I can.  Asked my neighborhood shop what grease they used to grease the S cams and slack adjusters.  Didn’t like their answer.  Shell Gadus S2 U1000 2 seems to be hard to come by.  Maybe it’s old school.  What greases are available today that people are using ?  After all, it’s 20 year old technology.  I worked in the oil field on Alaska’s North Slope, and saw a lot of advances in lubricants in the last 30 years.

Respectfully,
Mike Sulley

[Keith Moffett Co-Admin]

Hi Mike, welcome and congratulations on the new coach.
We had a 2002 Marquis.  It was a great rig and still on the road last I heard.
We had the Meritorious brakes that require clay base grease and when a shop had used high temp silicon a specialty brake shop pulled them off and apart to clean it out.  They were adamant about this causing multiple fires for them.
I seem to recall ordering direct from Meritor.  I know it wasnt hard to find or too costly.

[Steve Huber]

Mike,
Do a search on the Forum for "clay based grease"  You'll find a number of members that bought considerable quantities. They many have some available.
Steve