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Okay I "wax" my chain regularly.....  ;D

Been riding in some hot weather lately and noticed some "gunk" on the rear engine casing.

Traced it back to the front sprocket cover....

Removed the cover and mannnnnn... Was there some sticky, gritty, black, grimy, crap all gummed up there or what....  [bang]  [bang]

Nice and clean now.....

So when did you last check behind your front sprocket cover????  [cheeky]  [cheeky]

PS: And yes I did check the shaft seal and all is good... Just the gunk....  [thumbsup]

 I  did last week when i replaced the chain and sprockets.
 shure was some shit in there. :o
 Mineral turps and a good brush dose the trick. [thumbsup]

You mean you don't clean your front sprocket on a regular basis!
What kinda OCD do you have Big T....

I know, I know.......

Bad bad Big T.........  [bang]  [bang]

New tooth brush on order just for this cleaning task.....  ;D  ;D

totally agree, couldn't believe Trev was posting this. You looking for an intervention ????  ;D

I did mine last week as I was trying to track down my oil leak. Amazing how tacky the gunk gets in there. Hard to get off.

I've found that it's easy to ignore the front sprocket with the standard sprocket covering it up.  But mine will be cleaned and much more visible when a certain piece of bling makes it to my shed from Spider's lounge room floor within the next few days.  I was expecting some gunk but now I know for sure there will be gunk.  [thumbsup]

checked last Friday when swapping to a 14t cog....BTW something else I discovered in the process was that the clutch slave bolts were VERY hard to remove as they were dry, reinstalled them with some antiseize

Good to know Victor.
Nice to have you along here, are you from Oz somewhere?
Pop into to the introduce yourself thread and give us some details.

A little dab of high temperature grease in the recess that the clutch pushrod rides in, just to aid in the stopping of the pushrod binding in said recess and spinning the slave cylinder piston!! (Read.....Expensive!) :o

Chain cleaning brush is a big help in cleaning those dirty, greasy, usually neglected parts of the bike.  [thumbsup]

Nah, I just use the wifes Toothbrush   :D

I've come across some stuff that is excellent for the chain and does'nt fling off and leave a mess behind the sprocket cover or the rear wheel.




                             Mmick

And it is?????  [roll]  [roll]

Waiting, waiting................Geeeez Mick is a tease??  ;D [cheeky]

yep the same mick  [thumbsup]

 [laugh] Having been about six weeks since his previous post don't hold you breath guys ;D

... and Mick why aren't you coming tomorrow?


There would have been at least one Concours point in that Trev. It is amazing how quickly that shit accumulates ... luckily I have someone to clean it for me  ;D

Ooooh Betty, thats a brave statement?? [thumbsup] I can see Juikie sneaking up behind you with a BIG stick to admonish you!  [evil] ;D

hhmmm

Aaaaah there she is!!  :-*

we are threadjacking this too much

My tip is to clean behind the sprocket cover and chain to remove all the chain wax and then use ScottOil instead....  your chain will last longer...

yeah, I use Maxima for lube and I'm gunk free too (and so is the bike)

 ;D

The humble WD40 is a good solvent (and safe, wont screw the orings ) for some stubborn new age chain lubes that resist the more conventional types of solvents. [thumbsup]

Ta Da !! I'm back (for a short while)

The stuff I use is from Lanotec its a lanolin based product that works a treat and yes I clean the chain first with WD40 and then wipe it dry then apply this lanolin stuff.

Oh here we go there is one of these interweb sites www.lanotec.com.au (http://www.lanotec.com.au) so see if that helps.




Well..... being the generous bastard that I am, I have helped a mate out and loaned my bike to him for a little while. So.. no bikey, no ridey.






                                      Mmick

lanotec is good for a lot of things....like wd40 it's good for water displacement too and a rust inhibitor, and lubricant. New Zealanders were shocked to find that sheep had so many purposes!!!!

lancoate was the first lanolin grease , now theres quite a few different brands, lanolin is the only grease that is truely  salt water proof so its a good product but dont youse  wd 40 or crc or the likes befor you flame think about it, there main ingredient is kerosene which when cleaning you chain washes the grease out of the first roller then the kerosene evaporates leaveing a dry chain and most chain lubes wont get back in there , either youse a chain lube its self to clean before its sets or use 2 stoke fuel too clean it washes the chain and lubes the chain at the same time  and unlike wd 40 and crc theres no nasty other evaporates that attack the orings , just something too think about cheers bazz

Dunno 'bout the CRC product but the good old WD40 (Water Dispersant experiment number 40) doesnt have any kero in it, and the rumour is that the primary constituant was fish oil?? ???

For anybody thats interested.    http://www.wired.com/science/discoveries/magazine/17-05/st_whatsinside (http://www.wired.com/science/discoveries/magazine/17-05/st_whatsinside)

You should clean as much off as you can though, because it does have a slightly abrasive quality. ;D

I bought my WD in a 4Litre container and use it with a brush or pump spray. cheaper in the long run and easier. [thumbsup]

the akalines are what do the damage dragon get a piece of steel cleen it with crc and watch it rust and as we found on out boards it actualy ate the allo over time and stuffed seals , i switch over to lancoat no more probs  [thumbsup] 

Looks like a few of us are on the same page with this chain lube caper.






                             Mmick

Won't this make it worse? Constantly adding lubricant without the constant reminder to clean and lubricate. I would have thought any lubricant will attract shit ... and it makes sense the 'shit' will come off again at the tight radius front sprocket ... only the 'shit' is now sticky.


We were told this is what ruined our last chains ... as the story goes the wax acts like an insulator and keeps the heat in the chain basically boiling the lubicant behind the o-ring. Oils apparently lubricate and dissipate the heat. Probably not so much of a problem if you typically only do short runs.


Shame. You missed a great ride [roll]


I heard similar things ... maybe Bazz told me ;D [cheeky]

Maxima chain oil, not the wax, cleans and lubes, no splatter. Happy man!!!

Oooohhh. Haven't seen that one before.

The wax seemed to be all the rage in the past.