Originally Posted by
Greyryder
If you use too thick of a lube in a freewheel, it will actually slow down the pawls, and they won't be able to engage quickly enough. You'll end up with a freewheel that slips a lot, when you pedal.
Freewheels are a lot easier to lube, if you buy a pin spanner to loosen up the lock ring. Just don't completely disassemble the thing.
Thanks for the quick reply. I was able to find this as information, I believe the factory greases them, and grease is pretty thick stuff. As I understand the flip flop free wheel rotation for the freewheel, in one direction (reverse) that spins the gear with nothing applied to the wheel, it freely spins, and the change of direction (forward), that engages power to the wheel to propel it, nothing contingent upon whether, it's oil, grease or nothing at all, viscosity or more importantly with grease the presence and packing properties has to be there. The fixed gear, that doesn't need any lube beyond the rear axle being greased, it's engaged constantly.
http://www.parktool.com/repair/readhowto.asp?id=48
Below the removal tool types, all the FR-* Types, they actually show a Long Yih freewheel. That one doesn't even have holes to spray lubricant into
Go to the FR-6 link, they have a removal tool for some types, but nothing on greasing or lubing the innards of it:
http://www.parktool.com/products/det...at=4&item=FR-6
Chains are oiled, but anything that is load bearing , ball bearings that has to be greased. I think if this is shot or defective from the factory, replacing it is the only solution they have. I thought about removing the wheel and trying to force a little bit of grease in at a time into the 2 holes, working it into the freewheel gear housing by spinning it, but that would take forever ? When I first got the bike a few days ago, I just figured, cheap bike, loud noisy freewheel gear ? It was always sticky and noisy, but not that clunking that you can feel thru-out the drive train and even so much you feel it jolting thru-out the frame of the bike. Has to be amplified being a Hi Ten steel frame ?
Bike hubs used to have grease fittings you could inject grease into for the bearings, guess the sealed cartridges and bearings mean everything across the board is disposable these days.