I'm about to re-assemble my rear brakes which are Girling type Sierra calipers..
Before I do, is there a specific grease that should be used where the sliders go in the carriers?

Thanks,
Martin.

Ive always used Copperslip in the past. It tends not to attract as much crud as other greases and works well in this application.

Also good on back of pad to stop binding and squeeling

Rgds

Rich

ditto what richie says, copper slip is better as you use less, and it has a much higher melting point.

Thanks Gents, it's now on my shopping list.

Martin.

i dont know much about the car world but we had to stop putting copper slip on the back of pads becouse if the bike had been put away after a ride out in the rain ,the copper slip and the metal in the pads would react with the rain and spark arode away at the discs leaving little pit holes where the pads had stood after only a week or so

Do NOT use copperslip on sliding pins for calipers. it's crap and dries out. I have found this the hard way, de-rusting and re-greasing the brakes on my mx5 twice. the stuff you want is plastilube (I think it's called), specific plasticy grease for this application. I got a half used tube for nowt from a friendly mazda service technician. As for where you might find it... Brakes international?

Copperslip should never "dry out". Ive used it on everything from bikes up to and including Gp A rally cars with absolutely no problems whatsoever.

There are Copperslip type products and Copaslip (trade name), there may be inferior versions of it, but I doubt theres much between them.

Rich

[Edited on 3/11/05 by RichieC]

i also found copper slip to go very thick,,im not sure if its all the brake dust or other crap that works its way in,it might depend if its used daily and through all types of weather.in the end the only thing i used it for was the pins that hold the pads in.
we used to use it on wheel spindles as well but that also caused problems ,,,i blame the power washers

I've never had any problems using copaslip on the caliper slides, put the little rubber bellows back on to keep dust out. Copaslip is not a lube, it's an anti-seize.

I use coppaslip equivalent, nickelease, which is the same but silver and contains, you guessed it, Nickel!