Magical lubricant

[Seat Gooner]

hello everyone

Just servicing my kompact dual port dv and it says to clean then apply turbosmart lubricant

Now i know turbosmart don’t have a magical formula so my question is what do they use?

They state don’t use viscous oils

Is is just wd40 lol

 

[JamJay]

A little of topic but you've had it fitted a while now, do you still like it as much as when you first got it? Free of limp mode and error codes? Is it louder than a 007 and open cone still?

 

[Seat Gooner]

hello mate
Yeah i love it the noise is great well im having a couple probs now but i think it could be down to how I’ve serviced it :S a hell of allot louder than that mouse fart of the 007 and nope ive still got my standard smoothed box so it would be louder with a cone

 

[adam cupra 20vt]

I would say the lube is actually a grease and not a spray?

 

[Seat Gooner]

i got some k+N airfilter grease i wonder if that would be ok ??

OO and by the way it did say dont use grease

 

[adam cupra 20vt]

Best to ask them then....My 007p uses grease, I'm not sure what my GFB uses

 

[Seat Gooner]

yeah the 007 has red grease in there in the kompact more like a oil

 

[Ronin225]

The idea of grease is to lubricate but still be sticky enough to adhere to where applied
If oil is used it would drain off or escape the system entirely leaving only a thin film
Without knowing exactly how this valve works it is difficult to advise, but you could try air line oil, its very thin

 

[Seat Gooner]

cool thanks mate any idea the best place to get any ? because ive looked for turbosmart stuff and it will cost a bit to get it from america

 

[JamJay]

Thanks Gooner, appreciate the feedback

 

[Willie]

Cooking oil would do as its not going to wreck your seals.
If your fussy get extra virgin olive oil, if not vegatable cooking oil would do.
I'm surproise that is says not to use grease as there are MANY types and as above oil will venetually disappear and leave your seals dry.
What service intervals do they suggest?

 

[csd_19]

How about some Teflon bike lube? Finish Line do a "Dry Teflon Lube" which goes on wet (obviously!) but then dries to leave an teflon impregnated oil film. Been using that for years on the mountain bikes during the drier months as it works really well, also used it on my HKS SSQV to keep it lubed.

 

[Seat Gooner]

Cooking oil would do as its not going to wreck your seals.
If your fussy get extra virgin olive oil, if not vegatable cooking oil would do.
I'm surproise that is says not to use grease as there are MANY types and as above oil will venetually disappear and leave your seals dry.
What service intervals do they suggest?

thanks mate half year intervals i never thought of cooking oil

 

[Seat Gooner]

How about some Teflon bike lube? Finish Line do a "Dry Teflon Lube" which goes on wet (obviously!) but then dries to leave an teflon impregnated oil film. Been using that for years on the mountain bikes during the drier months as it works really well, also used it on my HKS SSQV to keep it lubed.

good idea

 

[AntneeUK]

Is is just wd40 lol

Don't know if you were being serious or not, but I really don't like the idea of using WD40 for any kind of lubrication outside of things like door-hinges. It's technically for displacing water (WD = Water Displacer). In comparative terms, it's not actually a very good lubricant. It is however very good at releasing seized bolts etc. If ever I was lubricating anything of high performance (like bike chains etc) I would always use a specialised lubricant

 

[ChrisGTL]

Silicone Grease?

Do these internal components get hot? Are they under pressure?

 

[ChrisGTL]

Infact, looking at the instructions I'd say this is a specialist type lube.

If its quite wattery then its most likely:-

Mineral Seal Oil or Pale Spindle type base with a small amount of corrosion inhibitor, friction modifier and extreme pressure additive. It may even have a tacky additive to stop it from running off the components.

I'd get the proper stuff if I was you.

 

[Seat Gooner]

lol naa wd40 would dry up and like you say its really for helping

And yeah these do get hot

 

[Seat Gooner]

Infact, looking at the instructions I'd say this is a specialist type lube.

If its quite wattery then its most likely:-

Mineral Seal Oil or Pale Spindle type base with a small amount of corrosion inhibitor, friction modifier and extreme pressure additive. It may even have a tacky additive to stop it from running off the components.

I'd get the proper stuff if I was you.

i think you could be rite not easy to get hold of this tho

 

[ChrisGTL]

i think you could be rite not easy to get hold of this tho

I could make you some up easily if I had a small sample of it to test