Campag hubs - Service question

craiguk
craiguk Posts: 39
edited June 2008 in Workshop
Hi, I've just serviced my 2007 Campag Record hubs as they were a little rough. What do you normally do when servicing the rear hub, do you grease the freehub pawls or leave them nice and clean with some light oil? I used a smear of lithium grease on mine but as the freehub seems a lot quieter than it did even when new I'm thinking that maybe a light oil may have been better. Not certain whether the grease will stop the pawls engaging correctly and cause the freehub to slip.

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  • gkerr4
    gkerr4 Posts: 3,408
    i thought grease was the usual practice - if you'd just used oil you would need to service them all the time as it wouldn't have lasted.

    it's also a common practice to use a lot of grease to try and silence the usually noisy campag freehubs!

    don't worry - i'm sure they will be fine
  • craiguk
    craiguk Posts: 39
    Thanks for that. After a few miles it'll probably be back to the normal racket anyway :D
  • hugo15
    hugo15 Posts: 1,101
    I went down the light grease route. It was virtually silent after it were serviced but 100 miles later and it sounds like it did before!
  • magliaceleste
    magliaceleste Posts: 748
    I've always used grease on my freehubs (edit: not regreased a Campag yet).

    Out of interest (or not!) DT Swiss recommend Molykote for their freehubs. So it's a fair bet that something similar would be good for most freehubs.

    http://www.sjscycles.co.uk/product-DT-S ... -15282.htm

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