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Originally Posted by Monkeysmate
thanks guys.
Is there a particular type of grease for the gear teeth? or is this less important?
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I use a general purpose lithium based grease but I'm sure you will be able to find something far more expensive in a model shop.
I'm in the process of fitting an Avid aluminium layshaft and multi-plate slipper to my Evo. I will use the POM (Acetal) idler gears with that.
I have some aluminium idlers that someone gave to me but I have never used them. The aluminium wear surfaces are usually hard anodised and you want to make that surface last as long as possible. For that you need everything to be
clean and lightly greased.
If two gears are correctly meshed, the faces of the teeth actually roll across each other and there is no sliding friction. But nothing is perfect in this world.