Originally Posted by
andrewluke
I have had grease show on both my Force-level SRAM BB and when I was using 6600 and 6700 Shimano BB's. Seems pretty normal to me as long as it's not flinging out of the seal.
And for the torque, I thought you were talking about the crank, just to clarify. The BB torque is not that high but the cranks require lots of torque to tighten. From my understanding, this torque is necessary because of how the crank centers itself in the BB using the non-drive side bearing.
The torque spec for the non-drive drive crank arm was actually pretty low IIRC (lower than it should be to seat the crank I think). I know I have it tightened enough because it's been perfect over ~100 miles. I'm just going to remove the non drive arm and torque it down with a torque wrench to be sure.