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To grease or not to grease?
Crank bolts. Did I read somewhere that it's best /not/ to grease them?
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To grease or not to grease?
Simonb wrote:
Crank bolts. Did I read somewhere that it's best /not/ to grease them? IIRC one should grease the bolts, but not the cranks themselves (assuming they're square taper jobs). -- Dave Larrington - http://www.legslarry.beerdrinkers.co.uk/ ================================================== ========= Editor - British Human Power Club Newsletter http://www.bhpc.org.uk/ ================================================== ========= |
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To grease or not to grease?
Dave Larrington wrote:
Simonb wrote: Crank bolts. Did I read somewhere that it's best /not/ to grease them? IIRC one should grease the bolts, but not the cranks themselves (assuming they're square taper jobs). They're not square, they're splined. So I should grease them. |
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Dave Larrington wrote:
Simonb wrote: Crank bolts. Did I read somewhere that it's best /not/ to grease them? IIRC one should grease the bolts, but not the cranks themselves (assuming they're square taper jobs). -- Having had the pain of dealing with seized cranks and bolts I took to adding a spot of grease to both before applying the torque wrench. Pretty much all of the grease on the taper seems to be squelched out by the time the torque wrench tells me I've put enough tightening effort in and possibly the same happens with the bolts. A groups.google.com search of rec.bicycles.tech will find as many opinions as you could wish for both for and against grease. http://draco.acs.uci.edu/rbfaq/FAQ/8f.11.html may be of interest & Sheldon Brown proably has advice on the issue on his site. -- Tim. |
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Simonb wrote:
They're not square, they're splined. So I should grease them. The last set of splined cranks I had actually in a box, as opposed to fitted to a bike when I bought it, had some green greasy gloop on the splines, so if it's good enough for Shimano... -- Dave Larrington - http://www.legslarry.beerdrinkers.co.uk/ ================================================== ========= Editor - British Human Power Club Newsletter http://www.bhpc.org.uk/ ================================================== ========= |
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"Simonb" wrote in message ...
Crank bolts. Did I read somewhere that it's best /not/ to grease them? Loctite 243. |
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Pete Biggs Wrote: http://draco.acs.uci.edu/rbfaq/FAQ/8f.11.html ~PB Fair enough. Jobst has his views on this matter. John Barnett says don't grease the spindle flats and I'll carry on working to the Barnett method (unless I see first hand evidence that it is wrong) Anyway, SimonB has his answer. Ian -- wheelsgoround |
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wheelsgoround wrote:
http://draco.acs.uci.edu/rbfaq/FAQ/8f.11.html Fair enough. Jobst has his views on this matter. John Barnett says don't grease the spindle flats and I'll carry on working to the Barnett method (unless I see first hand evidence that it is wrong) That's also fair enough and is what Shimano and Campagnolo advise! However, I'll carry on greasing as that method has worked best and perfectly for me so far. ~PB |
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"Pete Biggs" wrote in message ... wheelsgoround wrote: http://draco.acs.uci.edu/rbfaq/FAQ/8f.11.html Fair enough. Jobst has his views on this matter. John Barnett says don't grease the spindle flats and I'll carry on working to the Barnett method (unless I see first hand evidence that it is wrong) That's also fair enough and is what Shimano and Campagnolo advise! However, I'll carry on greasing as that method has worked best and perfectly for me so far. Likewise, I always grease. Having seen cranks "welded" onto spindles, and never having had a problem with greasing them, I'm carrying on doing so. At least I know I'll be able to get them off again. ~PB |
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