Originally Posted by
Bad Lag
If you use grease, which grease do you use inside your freewheels? How do you get it in and how do you clean and replenish it?
Do you disassemble the freewheel?
Did you install a zerk fitting?
Well, there's this:
Even has a Zerk fitting for your grease gun!
You have to be careful, though; cold weather can cause the pawls to fail to engage. Use the lightest grease available, not heavy-duty marine grade grease. Phil Wood used to distribute these injectors, and noted that you could remove the Zerk and thread a Phil grease tube directly into the injector, but I feel the Phil grease is far too viscous for this application.