[DHracer1067]

I'm rebuilding my rear hub because I just opened it up real quick and it looked really dirty so I took it all apart and cleaned it but what kind of oil do I use. I know not just regular grease or chain lube. What special kind of stuff do I have to use?

 

[FR4life.]

Really light weight fork oil works, it's what I've used on my ringle and it works good.

 

[davep]

Actually they use a very light weight clear (NLGI 0 IIRC) grease. A thin oil will just weep right past the seals and get all over...leaving your hub to wear away. THe thickness is just bearly pourable.....a little jiggling and it will pour. A traditional grease will be way too thick and will just gumm up the pawls and cause them to skip.


If you have a set of hubs, you should call hadley and get some grease from them...in the mean time you can get by with some HEAVY oil like phil's tenacious oil....or possibly mix some slick honey with some oil to thin it out a bit. Fork oil would be a no-no.

 

[DHracer1067]

well I actually got like one of rscycles last sunday teams since it was such a good deal so I have a complete bike already built up but the wheels that come on it don't have very good hubs so I want to throw on my 823 hadley set but they are two years old so a rebuild is in order before I mount them.

So Hadley has there own oil that they sell to people for the hubs? If so I'll just order from them I guess.

edit: is slick honey anything like rockshox judy butter because I have some of that along with fork oil. I don't want to sacrifice any performance by using the wrong thing since I have a spare wheelset though.

 

[kidwoo]

Actually they use a very light weight clear (NLGI 0 IIRC) grease. A thin oil will just weep right past the seals and get all over...leaving your hub to wear away.

Unless they've changed their assembly recently, they do (and definitely DID) use oil. And it definitely DID do exactly what you describe.

I got sick of it and just started using slick honey. I see mud maybe 3 times a year but I've had zero problems with this system. Hadley used to specifically tell you to NEVER use grease and only oil.

Maybe they finally caught up to my genius.


It's funny....when I first started telling people this years ago on this very site, I'd get so many hadley disciples telling me I was going to break my hub.

 

[Nick]

Has anyone tried Chris King hub lube in their Hadley hubs?

 

[kidwoo]

Sounds expensive.

 

[Nick]

It isn't, but it makes a cool buzzing sound when you squeeze the bottle.
This little bottle was maybe $10 (?) and goes a long way.

It liquid and just thick enough to coat the internals. It does not seep out of the hub shell.
It's really the only thing that works well in Kings, it would probably work well in other hubs as well.

 

[JRogers]

I used oil mixed with grease last time (forget which brands for each- probably Finish Line wet and Pedros grease or similar) and it worked fine. Not coming out or gumming up the engagement.

 

[IH8Rice]

http://www.sicklines.com/tech/howto/hadleyoverhaul/