Bicycle Mechanics - Grease for a Bendix Coaster Brake Hub

Is Park grease good enough, or do I need something special? Sheldon Brown mentions high temperature grease.

Repack Hill is nearby, but this bike will just be ridden around the neighborhood.

Tub of HT Disc brake wheel grease is probably cheaper than Park sold for bikes.

Yes Park's grease will work just fine for you. I use it for all of my coaster brakes' rebuilds.

Thanks! This is my first coaster brake rebuild.

Any automotive grease is more than good enough for our applications.

hey good luck with it, if you need any help with it let me know and i be more than happy to help out.

Thanks again, bikeman, the shoes are worn awfully thin and the rims are rusty. I'm tempted to just but a wheelset. At least I can add rebuilding a coaster hub to my resume.

I sincerely hope that this doesn't turn into another grease thread. I already have the Park grease. I'm not interested in buying a tub of anything else. I'm sure I could save big bucks by buying some sort of automotive grease in a tub, but the park in tubes is convenient and two tubes have lasted over two years and nine complete overhauls.

Park grease is fine. Even on "Repack Hill" all you'll need to do is repack.

Pack those shoes in grease also. Did you go up to the 'Bikefest'?

coaster brake hubs need 'stahlbremsenfett'. We use it on coaster brakes and planetary gear hubs (mainly Sachs/Sram) to grease the sun and planetary and ring gears. It is available through SRAM.

yes one tub of park's grease can last a long time. I go though a can every year.

Pack those shoes in grease also. Did you go up to the 'Bikefest'?

There's a link to my pictures here:

http://www.bikeforums.net/showthread.php?688234-Marin-Biketoberfest-today

Looks like I missed some good ciopino...

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It's Paella at Biketoberfest, not ciopino at bikefest.

Most of the old school shop manuals recommend giving Bendix hubs a shot of oil (30W is fine) in addition to greasing all the internal parts.

Most of the old school shop manuals recommend giving Bendix hubs a shot of oil (30W is fine) in addition to greasing all the internal parts.

Where do you shoot the oil?

you can mix the oil with the grease before you put it in the hub or on the parts. just a few drops will do it . use more than that and the grease will break down into nothing but oil. just remember grease is nothing but oil in a soap mixer anyway.

Where do you shoot the oil?

I give it a squirt inside the hub shell and one somewhere near the retarder spring (keeps it from squeaking). That's usually all you need.