so, my bottem bracket is creaking (its a truvative gigapipe dh) I'm thinking i just need to lube it and tighten it. what type of lube should i use? bering greese or chain lube? thanks.
Mike
Mike
Creaky sealed BB
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pull out your b.b. and clean out the threads of your b.b. and then throw some anti seeze on your threads and throw some on your splines for your crank arms and you should be good
Big E said:
Hmmm.. Normal grease - not chain lube, just the Park grease (Polylube 1000 is what it's called, it's just standard bearing grease) works fine, I've never used anti-sieze on my BBs. Only time anti-sieze is really needed is when you're threading aluminum into Ti or something.
Just use a lot of grease and torque it down well. Your LBS should be able to supply you with the appropriate grease.
Plumbers dope on the BB threads will solve the squeaking issue it will also make it easy to remove when it eventually dies.