Utterly Hacked Off With My Bike

danowat

You should here the sound of the freehub in my carbon disc wheel, its that loud that I can't actually hear someone chatting to me when they are next to me........

Not that I do a great deal of freewheeling or chatting when I am using it!

Paul E

My secteur goes through loud stages, not the wheels, the bottom bracket, I removed both sides the other day, cleaned and regreased everything with lithium grease and it was fine for a couple of rides but is now creaking again when I put more power than normal through it like when climbing etc.

everything else is fine, I never got on with the standard wheel built around spesh hubs and cxp22 mavic rims, had aksiums on it for ages now and can't fault them

Matt the Tester

procyclist wrote:

Flush out the rear block with WD40 if its making a grinding sound - might just be a bit gritty in there.
Don't be ashamed at going back to your LBS all the time

what??

:roll:

must be the worst advice ever!

procyclist

steady rider wrote:

procyclist wrote:

Flush out the rear block with WD40 if its making a grinding sound - might just be a bit gritty in there.
Don't be ashamed at going back to your LBS all the time

what??

:roll:

must be the worst advice ever!

Don't talk stupid - it sounds like this is exactly what the LBS did with the block, and the problem is solved.
I worry for the future of our country if some of you on here are supposed to be engineers and mechanically minded. God help us.

Thelittlesthobo

Only thing wd40 is good for on a bike is as a degreaser. Water sprayed at high pressure will remove a bit of grit, same as wd40, but it sure as hell wont do your bike any good.

Cup and cone bearings are like riding a bike. Once you have learnt the art, you will never forget. And beleiev me, just watching someone do it wont give you the skills. You need hands to be hands on.

Stiff_Orange

procyclist wrote:

steady rider wrote:

procyclist wrote:

Flush out the rear block with WD40 if its making a grinding sound - might just be a bit gritty in there.
Don't be ashamed at going back to your LBS all the time

what??

:roll:

must be the worst advice ever!

Don't talk stupid - it sounds like this is exactly what the LBS did with the block, and the problem is solved.
I worry for the future of our country if some of you on here are supposed to be engineers and mechanically minded. God help us.

Read what the OP wrote

LBS took the cassette off

Yes in this circumstance cleaning the cassette externally away from bearing etc is fine, as many people on this thread have already stated. Immerse it in a vat of WD40 if you want, but don't let the evil stiff near bearings.
How simply do you want people to explain it to you.

WD40 removes grease.
Bearing need grease to work effectively

Therefore putting WD40 on bearings is a bad thing

I worry for the future of humanity if people like you are breeding.

father_jack

Don't follow procyclist advice. Spraying GT85 on the cassette and chainset is ok, but be sensible where the spray is going, don't spray inside the lockring, and don't put too much.

But don't spray WD40 like a power washer..

procyclist

You are all so wrong its funny. The grit was in the block. WD40 washed the grit out, now its fine.

father_jack

If grit is between cassette and freewheel, take the darn thing off. Don't blast with WD40.

procyclist

Father Jack wrote:

If grit is between cassette and freewheel, take the darn thing off. Don't blast with WD40.

Thats what the bike shop did. Jesus H Christ. Took it off and blasted it with WD40

rolf_f

procyclist wrote:

You are all so wrong its funny. The grit was in the block. WD40 washed the grit out, now its fine.

That's the WD40 that the OP made no mention of when he described his trip to the LBS is it? I mean, I'm not going to get into a debate about who in this forum has the greater engineering credibility but, for my money, I'd go with the ones that can read.

OP wrote:

Weird thing is that he really didn't do anything - just took the cassette off we both had a look - nil to see - put cassette back on & that was that, but it worked!

father_jack

procyclist wrote:

Father Jack wrote:

If grit is between cassette and freewheel, take the darn thing off. Don't blast with WD40.

Thats what the bike shop did. Jesus H Christ. Took it off and blasted it with WD40

Rubbish bike shop then blasting WD40... :roll:

P_Tucker

procyclist wrote:

Father Jack wrote:

If grit is between cassette and freewheel, take the darn thing off. Don't blast with WD40.

Thats what the bike shop did. Jesus H Christ. Took it off and blasted it with WD40

Little known fact - if you put wd40 in the freezer then warm it back to room temperature, it actually becomes more viscous and can be used as a makeshift wet chain lube. Summat to do with long chain hydrocarbons. So, assuming you store your bike outside in the winter, it's actually okay to use it.

navrig

procyclist wrote:

Father Jack wrote:

If grit is between cassette and freewheel, take the darn thing off. Don't blast with WD40.

Thats what the bike shop did. Jesus H Christ. Took it off and blasted it with WD40

You didn't previously logon here as Thebigbee did you?

MountainMonster

LOL at procyclist. Pro fail is along the right lines.

Number 1- WD40 is a degreaser, not a lubricator. You put that on bearings, boom, all the grease is gone, making the bearings useless.

Number 2- learn to read. Your arguing with people saying the bike shop used WD40 on the parts to clean them, when it makes absolutely no mention of it in the OP's post.

I suggest learning proper bike maintenanca, some reading and comprehension lessons, and not breeding.

e999sam

Have to agree that WD40 is no good as a lub WD stands for water displacement. I use it a lot for cleaning before relubing. Spraqying anyhing at the freewheel body won't get in unless the seals are removed or knackerd.