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Do you all grease your cables?
11/20/11 at 23:33:32
After all the wisecracks,
well do you? Are those adapters any good? How often do you indulge?
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11/21/11 at 06:52:06
I tend to grease my cable every now and then...
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11/21/11 at 07:08:30
I used to grease 'em, then I went to cable wax. The wax still seemed to attract dirt and get slow/gummy in cold weather. Now I use a graphite based lube (currently dri-slide) and I like it. The cable action is very consistent.
Nothing wrong with grease or wax, it's just that once you start, you have to stay on top of the lubin's.
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Built2Last wrote
on 11/21/11 at 06:52:06:
I tend to grease my cable every now and then...
I prefer to have someone grease it for me.
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11/21/11 at 09:33:55
All wisecracks aside, this is how I've lubed the cables on the bike
http://suzukisavage.com/cgi-bin/YaBB.pl?num=1237997098/1#1
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11/21/11 at 12:15:07
MotoBuddha wrote
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Built2Last wrote
on 11/21/11 at 06:52:06:
I tend to grease my cable every now and then...
I prefer to have someone grease it for me.
So you get the mechanic down at the shop to do it? It's easy enough to do yourself...
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11/23/11 at 15:49:20
i oil them once year using the plastic baggy trick. I spray them down with brake clean or some such thing to get all the old oil and any dirt/debris that may have gotten in and use the baggy trick to squeeze 80/90 gear oil through the sleeve and down the cable then let it sit and drip overnight.
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11/28/11 at 12:51:29
don't forget to pull the speedo cable and lube it also
easily forgotten and you have to remove the tank to get to it
forgot about on an older machince and it broke as it has dried out and
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