Well the weather turned to crap today with lots of rain, but working from home as I am, I wasn't too fussed, no traffic, no tolls, no parking, just log on by 8am, and go make coffee and breakfast. By 4pm everything had gone quiet, so I sneaked out and reassembled my rear Henry Abe wheel.
Interestingly, the wheel bearings are two different OD's, something that I hadn't noticed before. They're good quality NSK sealed bearings, so I carefully picked the plastic seal off either side, and was happy to see that they were spotlessly clean under the seals, with no rust or crud in them.
Thursday wet wheel day 2 Apr 2020 by
Terry Prendergast, on Flickr
I flushed the old grease out with brake cleaner, then dried them, hit them with WD40's new (to me, at least) super penetrating fluid, then repacked them with good quality grease. There was absolutely no slop in them, so I called them good to go, and carefully tapped them back in, and loctited the retainer.
Thursday wet wheel day 2 Apr 2020 2 by
Terry Prendergast, on Flickr
Thursday wet wheel day 2 Apr 2020 1 by
Terry Prendergast, on Flickr
My old Ma tells me it'll be a nice day tomorrow, so if so, I'll try to sneak away early and get these fitted to my K2 "Bitsa" bike. I really hope so.