• Hi everyone,

    As you all know, Coffee (Dean) passed away a couple of years ago. I am Dean's ex-wife's husband and happen to have spent my career in tech. Over the years, I occasionally helped Dean with various tech issues.

    When he passed, I worked with his kids to gather the necessary credentials to keep this site running. Since then (and for however long they worked with Coffee), Woodschick and Dirtdame have been maintaining the site and covering the costs. Without their hard work and financial support, CafeHusky would have been lost.

    Over the past couple of weeks, I’ve been working to migrate the site to a free cloud compute instance so that Woodschick and Dirtdame no longer have to fund it. At the same time, I’ve updated the site to a current version of XenForo (the discussion software it runs on). The previous version was outdated and no longer supported.

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Chain Cleaning

Huskynoobee

Huskynoobee

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So I know there's chain lube threads a plenty. What are y'all using to get the lube and dirt off? Back in the day before O ring chains started finding their way onto dirt bikes, I'd whip the thing off and dump it in a pan with gas and brush off the nasties.

Obviously O rings don't like that treatment. I've used Simple Green and similar cleaners and those 3 side brushes to scrub em down while on the bike. It works OK and I get lots of miles out of them, but wanted to start discussing this.

AND...GO!
 
I used Bel Ray chain cleaner once. Sort of useless unless on a well brush cleaned chain first, especially if the chain has any clay embedded. The clay here is so tenacious I had to clean the chain with a brush and soap after using the chain cleaner. I only used the stuff since I got it by mistake and wanted to see if indeed it would shed the chain of dirt and gunk. No dice. Soap, water, brush and maybe I'll just use trusty Boeshield and a rag, then spray with a fresh coat of Bel Ray Super Clean.
 
Us Yanks don't get that fancy stuff here. How long does a tub of that stuff last Juicy?
 
Dunno never gotten through it in 2 years probably 15-20x use a year.
I use it on my trials bike and two other bikes.
 
Heavy soaking of WD40 hit it with the pressure washer at an angle not to close to chain then plenty of maxima synthetic chain lube. Let the maxima sit and it get gummy and doesn't fly off the chain. Use it on my dirt and street bikes..good stuff
 
I spray the chain and a bunch of other parts with CRC HD Silicone after every ride. It cleans and lubes o/x-rings chains well. At least every tire change I soak and brush the chain with B100 biodiesel which is a great cleaner and solvent. The original chain from my 2013 WR300 is still in great shape.
I was looking for a less toxic, cheaper way to clean and lube and this is working for me.
:cheers:
 
Thanks. The only catch so far is after about 2 hours of WFO riding the chain gets pretty dry. I thinks it's just superficial though, because my chains are lasting well.
PB Blaster silicone is thicker and stickier, but doesn't clean as well. Both are @ $3.99 at Lowe's and auto parts places.
I'm going with grooved sprockets next and I think they will clean up even better with this method.
I've been using the same gallon of biodiesel for 2 years. I store it in a used oil jug and all the dirt settles to the bottom. It's a great cleaner, but will eat latex and natural rubber.
 
Ooops, got it backwards :rolleyes: Blaster Industrial Silicone is thinner and cleans better, CRC HD Silicone is thicker and stickier. It's really dry here and noticed today the dust cleans off easily, chain and sprockets clean and lubed and ready to go again and only takes a few minutes.:cheers:
 
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