8sp STI
02-02-08, 12:31 AM
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8sp STI
Howdy,
I've come across a pair of sticky 8sp. Shimano 600 STI brifters. I've heard that flushing out things with tri-flow will make them less sticky. Is this true? If it is, what do I flush out?
Thank you very much!
-jw
I've come across a pair of sticky 8sp. Shimano 600 STI brifters. I've heard that flushing out things with tri-flow will make them less sticky. Is this true? If it is, what do I flush out?
Thank you very much!
-jw
02-02-08, 12:41 AM
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You can try, but there are no guarantees.
I flushed out the Shimano 600 brifters that came on my Trek 2300 and got them working again...for a while. Just stick the straw inside the guts as much as possible and blast away til they feel smooth.
Mine were sadly worn out. I replaced them with bar-con shifters that are much more reliable.
I flushed out the Shimano 600 brifters that came on my Trek 2300 and got them working again...for a while. Just stick the straw inside the guts as much as possible and blast away til they feel smooth.
Mine were sadly worn out. I replaced them with bar-con shifters that are much more reliable.
02-02-08, 07:17 AM
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I've had success flushing with lots of WD-40 first, then following with Tri-Flow. But, as stated before, there are no guarentees. In my limited experience, if they are just sticky but still working, they recover with a flush out.
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When something just needs to get flushed, I use SpeedClean. Watch out though, inhaling the aerosol alcohol is bad, bad, bad, bad, bad, bad . . .
