Hoards Thumbshifters
Join Date: Jul 2010
Location: Signal Mountain, TN
Posts: 1,157
Bikes: '23 Black Mtn MC, '87 Bruce Gordon Chinook, '08 Jamis Aurora, '86 Trek 560, '97 Mongoose Rockadile, & '91 Trek 750
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I'm probably doing it wrong, but I have usually lubed freewheels via carefully applying lube on a removed freewheel in the bearing race crack. Sort of spinning and lubing, spinning and lubing. I use a heavier lube like Finish Line wet lube. I keep doing it until it leaks out and then just keep spinning it in my hand for a while.
I should say I only do this if the freewheel doesn't seem to have any grinding or crunchy bits as you spin it.