Brake Grease? Use The Right Caliper Slide Pin Lubricant!

Before doing a brake pad / rotor replacement, make sure you lubricate the brake caliper slide pins with dielectric grease. This grease is also called plumber's grease and silicone grease. It will not dry out under heat and prevents rubber from swelling (like the rubber dust boots over the slide pins). Other petroleum based lubricants (grease) may get dry and brittle from heat and lose it's lubrication properties. When this happens, the slide pins may get stuck and will not allow the caliper to "float" with pad wear. This will result in uneven pad wear as well as poor braking performance.

Parts & Tools:

Permatex 22058 Dielectric Tune-Up Grease, 3 oz. Tube

Permatex 80653 Silicone Extreme Brake Parts Lubricant, 8 fl. oz.

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[damon]

You are one of the only people on YouTube that does it correctly and doesn’t throw in a hardware grease on the pins that eventually eats the rubber. So thank you for putting out correct info.
I made a switch recently to Toyota Rubber grease, made specifically for slide pins. I trust Toyota, so I’ll see how it goes

[dalemihocik]

Dielectric grease has been around forever and if it had sufficient properties to serve as a lubricant for caliper pins, I'm sure Permatex would have marketed it as such. While I appreciate your point of view, I'm sticking with their products made specifically for brakes.

[cezaryrenoir]

Glad for the time and will to make this short video .Hope for more

[landshass]

I was waiting for your regular video "AND WE'RE DONE"

[donayala]

Dielectric grease is primarily used for spark plugs among other functions but when it comes to caliper pins and bolts, a silicone based lubricant is highly, if not only recommended to maintain the rubber it slides against in proper form and functionality.

[Topcoatdetail]

I have tried red rubber grease for my motorcycle caliper pins. In a short span by 5000 kms the caliper are very sticky. Red rubber doesn't dry out but tends to get very sticky which can be felt by the brake lever with no brake feel.
During the pad change, i applied Dielectric grease on the piston and the caliper pin. After 200kms to bed in brakes, it feels like magic. Brakes drop like an anchor with so much precise feel and modulation. Now its close to 6000 km with the same feel and bite when installed new. Brake pad wear look pretty even, earlier one side wear slightly faster. I am a believer of silicone grease as it is superior to Lucas red rubber grease

[LetzHaveALook]

I wondered.
I thought normal grease would be right.
Had this grease and moved on.
Thanks mate.
Note likely will work better than ever has before ( that wasn't great )

[johnnyify]

Appreciate your videos, but I strongly disagree. I made that mistake once this past summer and used Dialectric Grease in a pinch when I ran outta proper slide pin grease. I live in Southern California Palm Springs area and temps can reach over 115-120 on the daily on summer days. I started to notice burning break smell after 4 or 5 days and sure enough my Slide Pins started seizing up and not a drop of dielectric grease 😳 redo on the pins with proper slide pin grease and back to normal. Vehicle is a GMC Acadia she's heavy and the stop and go traffic here is brutal in the summer. No joke people post temp readings over 130 plus due to there cars baking in the sun in parking lots. Pretty 🔥

[deeeyewhy]

I just had to do my rear brakes and on both sides the pins were seized so bad that I had to remove the caliper then use a bolt biting socket a cheater bar and a pry bar to keep the caliper steady just to get them off. Whoever did them last didn’t even use anti seize. I slathered on a nice coating of blue synthetic versa Chem brake caliper grease. Last night I attempted to sneak the pads in without removing the slide pins but that was a bad idea and the retaining clips were causing all sorts of grinding. I almost thought I wasn’t going to be able to get the slide pins out but when I saw them turn with the 125+ lbs/ft of torque I had to put on them it was such a satisfying feeling.
Please everyone listen to HMP and grease your slide pins properly if not for you than do it for whomever will own your vehicle after you!

I’m assuming the grease I used is primarily silicone and the only difference between it and dielectric is the consistency and that it contains ptfe? I’ve read a lot of different opinions on what should be used for calipers and slide pins but all ive deduced from the dialogue is that anti seize is a bad choice unless you’re only putting it on the threads and then using a proper silicone based grease on the slidig portion of the pin but that’s just dumb when you can use silicone for the entire pin.

[blacktactical]

Good day. What temperature should the oil applied to the brake caliper pins be resistant to? Can lithium soap based grease be used? I would appreciate it if you could help me with the caliper pins.

[dc]

I would pull the pins out, wipe them with a rag or shop towel and use either 3M or Mission silicone paste. Not sure why would you put the dirty pins back.

[mickobyte]

i agree with below comment and a good clean would not have gone a miss

[TargaWheels]

I was wondering about this for a while. You made me think of Eric The Car Guy. He was pretty anal about using only the white silicone grease/paste on slide pins. I don't watch his channel any more.

[philpots]

So any silicone grease will do, , , like red rubber ect ect?

[blacktactical]

LIQUI MOLY Synthetic Lubricant for Brake Pins 5 g (21119) Is this product suitable for brake calipers? I would be happy to help

[dmitripetrov]

I don't hear that dielectric grease can stand up high temperature. I used to put high temp bearing grease but dried in less than a year, but when I used brake parts grease it lasts for two years.

[EndlessXConcertgoers]

Can this use on the side and and back of the brake pads?

[Enpassantful]

Doesn't seem right to use an electrical grease on caliper pins.

[ianrimmer]

Have to disagree, I don’t think Dielectric grease will stand up to the temps. I’ve used red rubber grease for many years with no problems at all. Dismantling the brakes a year or two after, and there is always the red rubber grease on the sliders.