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SuperSavage Senior Member Offline SuzukiSavage.com Rocks! Posts: 341	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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Built2Last Serious Thumper Offline Tempt Fate Posts: 1447 FTF Gender:	Re: Do you all grease your cables? Reply #1 - 11/21/11 at 06:52:06 I tend to grease my cable every now and then...
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Re: Do you all grease your cables?
Reply #2 - 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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MotoBuddha Serious Thumper Offline Let's roll! Posts: 1416 Charlotte, NC	Re: Do you all grease your cables? Reply #3 - 11/21/11 at 07:36:45 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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EJID Serious Thumper Offline Work to ride and ride to work. Posts: 1536 Pocatello, ID Gender:	Re: Do you all grease your cables? Reply #4 - 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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Built2Last Serious Thumper Offline Tempt Fate Posts: 1447 FTF Gender:	Re: Do you all grease your cables? Reply #5 - 11/21/11 at 12:15:07 MotoBuddha wrote on 11/21/11 at 07:36:45: 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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BurnPgh Serious Thumper Offline SuzukiSavage.com Rocks! Posts: 1732	Re: Do you all grease your cables? Reply #6 - 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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SURAZAL Junior Member Offline SuzukiSavage.com Rocks! Posts: 80 ALBANY NY Gender:	Re: Do you all grease your cables? Reply #7 - 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 wore
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