Brake lube for Lockheed drum pivots?

I don’t know where my old Plymouth manual went so I can’t check that at the moment. What lube can I use for the shoe pivot pins? Silicone brake grease acceptable?

 

Lubriplate was the standard for all brake shoe to backing plate and pivots when I worked in the Sears auto center in the 60’s. I still use it today on any drum brake system and I have 3 vehicles with drum brakes.

 

Sorry for putting it in the wrong spot. Didn’t think to put it in the main forum being the car itself is an unmodified original..

I still do some drum brakes, especially parking brakes, but on that stuff I just use some of the caliper grease at the Contact points. Being this is a hinge essentially, the lubriplate would probably be ideal and I’ve forgotten all about the lubriplate being most of what I work on is modern these days.

 

My go to is Permatex Anti Sieze Compound

 

Lubriplate or if I feel like looking like the tin man Anti-Seize.

 

Plastilube #3, is impervious to heat and cold, very sticky and hard to wipe off.
Great assembly grease, can be used as a sealer as well
Will not dry out over time
I put that sheet on everything!

 

I haven't bothered with adding grease to drum brake parts for decades, and strangely enough, the brakes still work and don't seem to wear out more, while I have them.

 

I actually have some plastilube

 

I don’t all the time either, especially on my own stuff. But this is basically hung on a hinge, and it has a cup with felt to hold a grease behind it. They are anchored with a C clip

 

perhaps a dab of normal chassis grease?

 

I just use wheel bearing grease. It stays in place, doesn't melt and migrate from where it's applied. Plus I have lots of it.

 

For drum brakes at least, Lubriplate has always seemed to be the "go to" as far back as I can remember. All the techs had a open can with a solder flux brush stuck in it on their work benches.

Never heard of Plastilube before. Sounds interesting. Does it tend to be spendy?

 

Brake grease is a very low pressure lubricant, no good for point loading. Anti-sieze grease is abrasive due to metalic content. Use any lithium based grease, preferably one with water displacement properties. I use the white lithium which is very sticky on brake mechanisms

 

$7-$11.00 per tube

 

Well that wouldn't exactly "brake" the bank, would it?

 

I’m not real sure where to get plastilube locally. The way I have some is through work, and I get packets of it in some stuff but I use jars of brake lube and grease that they give us. I don’t have a Lot of plastilube but I have enough to do what I need. I have about a drawer full of silicone brake grease packets, and some moly packets as well