Re: [ST] Exhaust and chain question?

[Bil Swartz <bil@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Jody,  the grease you noted on the chain, a light tan or grey color?

In scraping the gunk from my cover I noticed the last, well guess it would 
be the first, layer was a light greyish tan.  Then I took the new chain 
out I'm about to install onto the viffer and guess what color the grease 
coating on the chain as shipped is?!?  Yep, kinda tan.  It wasn't a very 
thick layer, prolly half of a mm or so?  Sound familiar?

Guessing DID chains ship with this grease coating.  I plan to clean it off 
and coat the chain with the Dupont Multi-Use Teflon lube from new to see 
how it does this time.

You might as well ask the dealer if they put anything on there but sounds 
like it might just be the original grease slinging off and you were 
unlucky enough to pick up a large rock?

HIH,
-Bil-

On Mon, 9 Apr 2007, Jody Allen wrote:

> Bil,
> I'm not sure of why it was done.
> Was what you found build-up of what the chain had shed?
> What I found was new looking gray grease that had already collected  a
> lot of dirt.  I noticed the grease on the chain the day that I picked it
> up and thought nothing abnormal about it, but about 2 weeks later after
> riding in the rain and noticing a grinding sound while moving at low
> rpms I went to clean and re-wax my chain.  That is when I found the
> grease glob and the build up of filth and rocks that was causing the
> grinding.
>
> Bil Swartz wrote:
>> On Mon, 9 Apr 2007, Jody Allen wrote:
>>
>>
>>> The reason I asked the other question about the chain "grease" is that a
>>> dealer that I have been using to service my bike did this after
>>> replacing the chain.  It seems that the only effect that it had was to
>>> trap every dust particle and small rock and stick them to my chain.  He
>>> was trying to sell me sprockets too, but at the time my money was a bit
>>> tight and my sprockets showed very little wear.  My chain however needed
>>> replacement (he used a relatively cheap one).  The dealer told me that
>>> the setup he left me with would last until the next service interval.
>>> What is seem like to me is that he set me up by sabotaging my bike.
>>> This dealer has had a very good reputation and it is not even the
>>> closest dealer to me, but I chose them because I thought the quality
>>> would be better.  This is not something that I want to believe.  That's
>>> why I'm seeking your collective input before I confront the dealer.
>>>
>>
>> Jody,
>>
>> Are you quite certain that they put something inside your front sprocket
>> cover intended to lube the chain?  I've personally not heard of such, but
>> that's not to say there isn't something like that out there.  However on
>> pulling my sprocket cover off today to check the sprocket size, I found a
>> huge amount of "gunk" that went at least half way around the sprocket and
>> it was thick enough that it was obviously making contact with the chain as
>> indicated by the tracks in the gunk.
>>
>> Like you, I noticed lots of rocks, dirt and debris in it as I scraped it
>> off with a putty knife.  So I wonder if that's what you're seeing in
>> there.
>>
>>
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