chuckybb

In the past, any freewheels that I have cleaned up and greased with the Park Tool poly-urea grease on the bearings and the pawls have sounded like the grease was preventing the pawls from functioning properly and seemed sluggish with the ratcheting. After removing the grease from the pawls and applying a bit of sewing machine oil they sounded right to me. I'm hoping the expert freewheel doctors on this site will comment on this. I'm fiddling around with an old Atom freewheel now and want to get it right.

Thanks all for the comments and suggestions! Now if I can get the pawls in right and the freewheel assembled, lots of fun!