Grand Bois

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.

fietsbob

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

bikeman715

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

Grand Bois

Thanks! This is my first coaster brake rebuild.

davidad

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

bikeman715

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

Grand Bois

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.

JohnDThompson 

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

curbtender

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

Batavus

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.

bikeman715

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

Grand Bois

There's a link to my pictures here:

https://www.bikeforums.net/showthread...oberfest-today

curbtender

Looks like I missed some good ciopino...

Grand Bois

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

kingsting

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.

Grand Bois

Where do you shoot the oil?

bikeman715

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.

kingsting

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

bikeman68

I have found that nothing compared to Phil Grease for resistance to wear and rust. When i used Parks grease I found out the hard way I couldnt count on it, rust formed on bearings after rain, and the riding scored bearing surfaces, Id rather use Wal Marts red universal auto bearing grease than Parks if you seek grease on the economy price side. The clutch and steel brake shoes definitely need a Hi temp grease in CB hubs, so dont use Oil or anything cheap

Jeff Wills

Did you happen to notice that you're replying to a thread that's 3 1/2 years old?

Kimmo

We need the mods to edit this pic into the OP of every thread that's bumped from the grave.

rydabent

The simple fact is that ANY automotive wheel bearing grease will work just fine. And the big deal is that since it isnt a namebrand cycling grease, it will cost tons less.

unterhausen

depends on why the thread gets bumped. If it's over a couple of years old, we just close it. My suggestion is that after a while the background color is changed to green, which becomes darker and darker over time. So a 10 year old thread would be kelly green background. They don't take me seriously for some reason

bikeman68

Jeff we still need and will always need petrolium oil for mechanical friction, so when you learn how not all grease is the same and pay for that with hub damage, then knowledge is super valuable. Im just sharing what I learned with actual ride experience, riding in all conditions including rain which is the ultimate test so when 1 grease hold up and keeps races from scoring and rusting while another, such as PARK fails, thats a big difference especially since you end up with a wrecked hub thats a DRAG from that point. Its just a shame that some bearings greases are bottom of the barrel, and somebody will value this post in yr 2020 just the same

Jeff Wills

I don't understand what you're talking about. All I said was "Did you happen to notice that you're replying to a thread that's 3 1/2 years old?"