Rear hub schmoo
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- richhemmings
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Rear hub schmoo
Hi chaps,
Forgive the rookie question, but I've had my wheels off to be repowdered and noticed a lot of grease on the rear hub, and wheel carrier.
Question the first...
Does this need to be refreshed (I've not done in 5000km/ 6years and suspect this is the factory issued gunk)
Question the second...
I would say whoever schmoo'ed it up before me was very liberal... Right? Wrong?
Final question...
If I need to regressed, will normal lithium based grease do, or do I need high temp stuff??
Thanks as always!
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Forgive the rookie question, but I've had my wheels off to be repowdered and noticed a lot of grease on the rear hub, and wheel carrier.
Question the first...
Does this need to be refreshed (I've not done in 5000km/ 6years and suspect this is the factory issued gunk)
Question the second...
I would say whoever schmoo'ed it up before me was very liberal... Right? Wrong?
Final question...
If I need to regressed, will normal lithium based grease do, or do I need high temp stuff??
Thanks as always!
Sent from my Swift 2 X using Tapatalk
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Re: Rear hub schmoo
Looks like copper grease? Just to stop the wheel corroding and sticking on.
Leave it alone
Cheers
Ian
Leave it alone
Cheers
Ian
- richhemmings
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Re: Rear hub schmoo
Cheers Ian!!Morespeedvicar wrote:Looks like copper grease? Just to stop the wheel corroding and sticking on.
Leave it alone
Cheers
Ian
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Re: Rear hub schmoo
Looks like the bike's PO suffered from "stuck rear wheel" syndrome and didn't want it happening again!
Ciao,
Ciao,