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My chameleons EBB creaks like mad. I've taken it out, cleaned it up, regreased it, and tried different things like carbon paste in there, but nothing seems to help very much.
Any tips?
about half a tub of copper grease sorted my mates out. Needs doing every year though.
Just completely covering the thing? I've tried copper grease, but used normal amounts of it..
If two surfaces touch (non carbon) then generous copper slip. Not just the bolts but all the faces that touch anything.
I tried regular cleaning and greasing but that didn't sort it. Eventually I gave in and handed it to a decent LBS and the noise disappeared. I should have asked them what they did, but there wasn't any obvious signs of a huge amount of grease or copper slip oozing out of the EBB.
If two surfaces touch (non carbon) then generous copper slip. Not just the bolts but all the faces that touch anything.
That's what I had done, to the point where everything was copper coloured. Maybe I just wasn't generous enough?
Eventually I gave in and handed it to a decent LBS and the noise disappeared. I should have asked them what they did, but there wasn't any obvious signs of a huge amount of grease or copper slip oozing out of the EBB.
Could you go back there and ask? For me and you? Which LBS was it?
interesting, mine does the same thing but goes away when i service it every couple of months, i've just learnt to live with it.
The last one I did has lasted almost two years before the creaks have returned.
Which LBS was it?
The Bicycle Works, Argyll Place, Edinburgh.
My mates creaks like a bastard. Annoys the hell out of me on rides
i've just learnt to live with it.
That's what I've been doing so far, but it was mega loud last night. I swear its wasting about 500W. I'm actually working like Chris Hoy, just that 90% of it is going into making that noise..
Cheers ChrisL, just gave them a call and they recommended copper grease. Not really a breakthrough lol.
Mine only creaks when it's dusty. good clean sorts it out.
AH is right, mine creaks like a bar steward. After a service it goes away and comes back again once it's washed down (no real pressure in the water either). I'll look into that copper stuff.
The noise on mine was apparently created by the thread on the ebb disappearing. A replacement solved the problem.
Remove EBB unit.
Clean everything spotlessly.
Grease the inner parts of the EBB unit.
Wrap EBB unit in PTFE tape then gease the EBB shell and reinstall the EBB unit.
Ride on with out annoyingcreakage.
singlespeedstu: I was suffering from a creaky EBB unit and it was doing my head in. Had tried copper grease etc in the past, which reduced it for a while before the creak returns in earnest.
The ptfe tape idea I hadn't considered, and it works a charm. Cheers.
Glad it worked for you.
The next step if the PTFE tape trick didn't work would be to fit a Carver EBB unit with nylon sleeve.