vintage chain lubing

[Horton Oliphant]

I used a mixture of thick grease and paraffin melted together to soak my rattly clean non oring chain for my 74 Bultaco. Ran the exhaust fan full tilt so as not to irritate the wife too much. Used my own container not one of her pans. Hung up the chain to drain and cool then wiped off the excess with rags. Worked quite well at the time. Needed to be done before every foray into the dirt. Tried using Dry-Slide after I read something about it but I was still using a non oring chain and it didn't work very good. The DuPont Teflon Lube sounds like it would fall into the same class as Dry-Slide which should work well on oring chains, I would think. That being said I now pretty much just use WD40. Alan Henderson A13 Iowa

On 10/9/2012 1:36 PM, Bogdan Swider wrote: > snip > > Exactly .that's why I don't understand the logic of applying any lube to the chain after cleaning with WD-40. Where the sprockets and chain touch will very soon be devoid of anything that's applied. What you need is to keep the O/X rings pliable ( I've seen dry O-rings fall off a chain. ) and keep rust at bay. The small amount of lubricant left on the chain after the solvent evaporates after applying WD-40 is more than enough to do the proscribed tasks. > > Bogdan, who advises the riders of the world to throw off their moto-specific cans of lube. The money saved can then be applied to tithing, bourbon or whatever. >

[mark ward]

I removed the "Lever" (3 hole center piece the shock, swing arm bolt, etc. bolt to.) and it does NOT want to go back in. The clymer says: "tap" out, and "Tap" back in. but the sleave stops it. Do I, Need to, loosen the engine mount near it also?? (to open the gap) [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]