Just wondering what any of you Buick engine builders out there - use for assembly lube. I realize that there are a lot of great ones. Just curious. I'm showing a picture of 2 that I have. The Brad Penn from TA. And the Joe Gibbs stuff. I actually use the Joe Gibbs engine oil and will be using his oil to break in this 455.
What I am basically saying. The short block is done. Cam. Etc. The heads are now on and torqued. Thinking about pushrods. Rockers. And such. Assembly lube for this.
Lubriplate #105 Motor Assembly Grease. Probably the single-most-popular engine assembly lube of all-time. I learned about it in trade-school decades ago, and it wasn't new then. The "100" series products (101, 104, etc.) are all the same grease, in varying package sizes, and varying thickness/viscosity. https://www.lubriplate.com/Products/Grease/Multi-Purpose-Greases/100-Series/NO-105 When my tube of 105 is empty, I've already bought the replacement: https://www.crcindustries.com/extreme-pressure-engine-assembly-lube-10-wt-oz/ This is a light-bodied lube about the same as the 105, but with moly and graphite included. There's a hundred "assembly lubes" ranging from thin liquids like ATF for cylinder walls, to engine oil to specialty products for bolt threads, pipe-plugs, to thin greases like these above, to very thick moly-based paste for flat-tappet cam lobes and lifters. They all have their place, the issue is figuring out what their place is. And there's lots of overlap, too. Some of this is determined by the amount of time between assembly and first fire-up of the engine. If there's a long delay, greases may be preferred over liquid lubes. With thick moly-based paste on cam lobes 'n' lifter feet, the oil filter HAS to be changed at 20 minutes of run time. Moly-based paste can plug an oil filter in 20 minutes. https://www.enginebuildermag.com/2016/05/assembly-lubes-and-break-in-oils/
