Originally Posted by
Mr IGH
I'm running one of my Alfines and my im9 on ATF. The Alfine (same guts as my high end Nexus) shifts even better, I'm sure it will have better cold weather performance, last winter when it hit -18*F here my Alfine had the factory grease still. Shifted fine, a little slow. The Alfine/Nexus is easy to service, just pull the guts and soak. im9 has disposable dust cap on drive side, need a new one to pull the guts, nobody sells the dust cap yet...for that hub I removed the non-drive side con and poured a couple tablespoons of ATF into it.
Could you tell us a bit more, or should we start a new thread? I'm interested in oil conversions because I love my sturmey archer oiler.
You simply opened the NDS of the hub and poured Automatic Transmission Fluid from an automobile in? You didn't strip the factory grease first?
Didn't that cause grease to be displaced?
How do the seals hold up?
Displacing grease and then having the oil leak out of the seals sounds like a good way to end up running the hub dry...
This lubricates both the bearings and the planetary gears?
How did this change the behavior of the hub?
Why do it this way instead of removing the internals and drilling & tapping a proper oil port in the hub shell for easy topping off?
How often do you repeat your process?
Why not light-weight ND motor oil?
thank you, Mr. IGH. Very interested in all you know about the I9 and in oil conversions.