Old 05-14-12 | 08:31 PM
  #2  
JohnDThompson's Avatar
JohnDThompson
Old fart
Titanium Club Membership
20 Anniversary
Community Builder
 
Joined: Nov 2004
Posts: 26,314
Likes: 5,225
From: Appleton WI

Bikes: Several, mostly not name brands.

You can add oil through the axle where the bell crank sits; it will eventually work its way out past the cones and/or the bell crank. Whether this is a Good Idea or not is questionable if the hub was designed for grease lubrication.

You can add an oil port without tapping. The plastic Sturmey-Archer oil port cap is press-fitted into the hub shell, but if you drill a hole in the shell be sure to remove the mechanism first so metal debris doesn't fall into the works.
JohnDThompson is offline  
Reply