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Title: What grease to use for the speedometer gear unit?
Post by: hypophthalmus on July 10, 2014, 07:21:10 PM

The manual makes frequent mentions of "grease" including for reinstalling the speedometer gear unit. What sort of grease do you use? Lithium grease?

Title: Re: What grease to use for the speedometer gear unit?
Post by: frugalangler on July 11, 2014, 01:42:04 AM

I favor 'white lithium' grease for those situations

Title: Re: What grease to use for the speedometer gear unit?
Post by: ophelia on July 11, 2014, 04:29:40 PM

I pack the gear unit by the wheel with bearing grease.

Title: Re: What grease to use for the speedometer gear unit?
Post by: MaryK on July 11, 2014, 08:42:36 PM

We keep a can of general purpose grease for the speedometer and speedometer cable.
Not any special requirement for the grease.  A waterproof grease like wheel bearing grease may be best,
but I haven't seen wheel bearing grease for sale in several years.

scoot safely,

Title: Re: What grease to use for the speedometer gear unit?
Post by: zombie on July 12, 2014, 06:22:14 AM

If you can catch, and squeeze a bunch of snakes... I've just read a post that mentioned snake oil.

That might get complicated tho.

Any water proof grease is fine. I use Marine grade for just about everything. White lith. is just as good.