I have lived on a bike all my life.
I remember the old Bullshot bearing grease [for bicycles] said right on the tube good at one bearing packing to go coast to coast [ocean to ocean]here in the states. It would too. They don't make it any more I guess can't find it.
I used Majestic red automotive grease forever it may not be the best stuff. Funny I don't think they make it anymore ether. I got some left. Valvoline makes something just like it that is the same color. That is what I pack my hubs with now.
But I gotta say as a Auto mechanic this stuff is very hardy. The cars we use this stuff in and the fleet trucks It weathered very nicely. I can make the brakes on my own cars last forever. After 10 years with a GMC Serria pick up truck I had to put new front pads on because they were simply glazed. I think it was longer than that.
I had done a great many high speed state to state interstate high ways run with this truck. Course when I pack rotors on a car I pack them enough to sweat out the seals a bit. I get them full. That grease did its job I tell ya it was defiantly time to repack the bearings . Guess what? The bearings were perfect no pitting on the races everything was fine. I reused the seals too.
So what I am getting at is oh I don't know lost track. I recon the the coaster break hub needs to be taken apart and cleaned? All the crumbs from the internal brake?
I have not worked on one since I was a kid. I am a free wheel hub guy my self. Ever since the BMX days and all the stunts the only hub I want to use is a free wheel hub, cassette whatever.
While for me a rear hub will wear out sooner than a front [Spokes]. I have some sealed cartage unit front hubs with 20,000 miles on them. I have not done anything to them. They still work. I put them aside and ran new wheels becuase I was bored with them.
I say with a make shift grease cert stop worrying about it.
Get your cone wrenches out set the hub bearing end play perfect then simply leave it alone.
I remember the old Bullshot bearing grease [for bicycles] said right on the tube good at one bearing packing to go coast to coast [ocean to ocean]here in the states. It would too. They don't make it any more I guess can't find it.
I used Majestic red automotive grease forever it may not be the best stuff. Funny I don't think they make it anymore ether. I got some left. Valvoline makes something just like it that is the same color. That is what I pack my hubs with now.
But I gotta say as a Auto mechanic this stuff is very hardy. The cars we use this stuff in and the fleet trucks It weathered very nicely. I can make the brakes on my own cars last forever. After 10 years with a GMC Serria pick up truck I had to put new front pads on because they were simply glazed. I think it was longer than that.
I had done a great many high speed state to state interstate high ways run with this truck. Course when I pack rotors on a car I pack them enough to sweat out the seals a bit. I get them full. That grease did its job I tell ya it was defiantly time to repack the bearings . Guess what? The bearings were perfect no pitting on the races everything was fine. I reused the seals too.
So what I am getting at is oh I don't know lost track. I recon the the coaster break hub needs to be taken apart and cleaned? All the crumbs from the internal brake?
I have not worked on one since I was a kid. I am a free wheel hub guy my self. Ever since the BMX days and all the stunts the only hub I want to use is a free wheel hub, cassette whatever.
While for me a rear hub will wear out sooner than a front [Spokes]. I have some sealed cartage unit front hubs with 20,000 miles on them. I have not done anything to them. They still work. I put them aside and ran new wheels becuase I was bored with them.
I say with a make shift grease cert stop worrying about it.
Get your cone wrenches out set the hub bearing end play perfect then simply leave it alone.
