Carbon Easton bars ?

Chilesy

Hi there ,Just got some Easton EC monkey light DH bars and saw in the instructions that you should use a special Carbon paste on the inside of the stem were it contacts the bars.But my stem instuctions just says to use a light smear of grease.Have got a 08 Enduro with the intergrated stem,Just need to know if normal Finish line grease is ok or were to get the correct carbon stuff as i dont want to damage the bars Thanks

nicklouse

yes it will be fine. or clamp it dry.

Chilesy

Thats great Thanks alot

Great Ayton

Dry or proper carbon grease. A lot of general greases contain chemicals that can damage carbon. The carbon will often swell and become week. Just the other day a seen a road bike that steerer was so contaminated it was actually bright yellow and delaminating in my hand.

canada16

I have been asking myself the same question

I have been looking around and on another forum, some guy actually spoke to the dude who wrote zinn, I think his name is zinn>?

Anyway, he put normal grease on and never had a problem, I think as long as you dont live in africa or dubai, which is in a hot climate, you should be ok not matter what you do.

If you are a bit weary, just give it a twist every month or so.

This is what I got from my research anyway.

I am going to clean and put on dry like my ricthey carbon bars, which have been great.

petercarm

Worth pointing out the reason for the assembly paste being advised.

With the correct carbon assembly paste, the bars will stay still with a lower clamping torque. This is important for carbon and assembling dry or with grease is called: "getting away with it (tm)." and is a far cry from best practice.

Chilesy

Thanks for your posts, I had fitted them with a little grease but after reading this i will clean it off and get some proper Carbon paste.Im sure 4 day wont of done any harm and i had used a torqh wrench Thanks again