TimJ

I switched to a softer spring on my new magura odur fork and wasn't sure what kind of grease to use to grease it so I just got all the grease I could off the original spring and put it on the new one for the time being. This is a coil fork, no air. If I understand "bath" correctly it's not a bath or semi-bath fork I don't think, meaning no oil in w/ the spring (if that's what bath means).

I know I don't have to use magura's $40 a tub grease, but I don't know what I can use. The stuff that was on it already is like a really thick petroleum jelly. I thought park polylube, which I have on hand, might be a little too thin.

All I've seen mentioned as coil spring grease is slick honey and Red Devil Grease, but it seems maybe slick honey is for bath applications.

So... red devil or something else? What can I/should I use on my spring? Thanks.

ed 

I used run of the mill red axle grease on my Vanilla and Domain. It's basically just to keep it slickery to slide up'n'down against the stanchion. The spring should be covered with heat shrink tubing too.

TimJ

Heat shrink tubing? Why?

DirtPedalerB

without the heatshrink tubing it will make a squalking noise when the fork compresses... as the spring will rub on the metal in the fork directly. I figured this out after a couple of thousand miles on a cheap fork .. my spring tubing cover was completely worn off of one side.

it had been squalking for a while but I just ignored it.. didn't seem to hurt anything.. the halfgallon of water that got in there did it in though. I finally got it to seize now it's a super rigid fork,

TimJ

Ah. There's just a tad- less than an inch- of tubing on the original spring, I was wondering what the deal was.

ed 

Fox tubing is somewhere around 2-3" long and the repl. that PUSH Ind. installed was a bit longer and much better quality.

-_RebelRidin'_-

For my own future reasons,

Would bearing grease or something similiar work?
(Quaker State high friction./temperature bearing lube?)
something like that

TimJ

So we're talking just a strip in the middle? I bought some from the hardware store, the biggest they had diameter-wise, and it's just big enough to fit over the spring. It's 3 inches long.

Just one of those in the middle?

I also picked up some super lube synthetic grease from there to use on the fork... unless someone screams "NO!" I'm gonna assume it'll work fine.

ed 

Yes...that tube will work.

Any "thick" grease will do the job. Just need something that will stay put for a while.

johnnytheboy