I am going to help my friend with his bmx bike that hasn't been ridden in a long time. For bikes blue or red threadlock? For the headset bearings, can I use axel grease?
blue or red threadlock
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Blue unless you never want to get it off
Yes on the grease -- just make sure to clean the old stuff off really well.
Nothing on a bike except maybe brake rotor bolts needs to be loctited. Just use a little grease on the bolts and any other metal-to-metal contact ie seatpost and bearings.
Nothing on a bike except maybe brake rotor bolts needs to be loctited. Just use a little grease on the bolts and any other metal-to-metal contact ie seatpost and bearings.
The grease is cool as long as it's water resistant, and like the post above says use the BLUE loctite only if you have a problem with things coming apart. Otherwise grease works fine on all the bolts.
DittodirtjumpP.1 said:
Blue if you ever need to remove, red if you never plan on removing. I would say you'll never need red on a bike. Use blue only if you are having a problem with something repeatedly coming loose.
On-On Stonz
On-On Stonz
A while ago in my traxxas rustler r/c car, my hinge pin that held the front a-arm (control arm) (made of plastic) to the chasis kept coming loose. SO my friend put red threadlock around the hing pin. I din't come loose again. A few weeks later I needed to the the a-arm off. It took about an our of puting paint or lacker thinner in it and lossening it to get it out. Then I had to drill the peices of threadloc out of the a-arm with more thinner.
I typically loc-tite all the bolts on my bike (especially shock mounts/pivots, etc), with loc-tite. Can't hurt.
Keep it blue baby.
-Adam
Keep it blue baby.
-Adam