Originally Posted by
ridethecliche
I was going to go the WD40 route, but I decided not to after I put the front wheel and stem on.
The headset allowed everything to just move around due to gravity, so smoothly that it smacked against the top tube nice and hard.
It's really smooth with the bars on there now. I'm content with it. Next time I take it apart, I'll clean stuff out with WD40, but I'm good with the repacking for now!
Thanks for the help everyone.
My swing test is based on SMALL tilts of the frame, not big enough to get the 'bars to dent the top tube. If it doesn't respond smoothly to thise little deflections it's still not right. The way I do it the BB doesn't move more than say 5" relative to the top tube. I also move it pretty slowly, a few second cycle back and forth.
Plus, I'm concerned, did you really get all the dirt out?