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hypophthalmus

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What grease to use for the speedometer gear unit?
« 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?

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Re: What grease to use for the speedometer gear unit?
« Reply #1 on: July 11, 2014, 01:42:04 AM »
I favor 'white lithium' grease for those situations

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Re: What grease to use for the speedometer gear unit?
« Reply #2 on: July 11, 2014, 04:29:40 PM »
I pack the gear unit by the wheel with bearing grease.
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Re: What grease to use for the speedometer gear unit?
« Reply #3 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.

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Re: What grease to use for the speedometer gear unit?
« Reply #4 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.
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