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Thanx for the welcoming. I will post a few project and some info in the next couple days so keep an eye out. Shimano rep told us only white grease. Shimano warranty guy who rebuilt the one hub says black grease is for brakes. Do you believe the guy with the pencil or with the wrench?? I forgot...

The hub is working fine, and probably looks brand new inside, however the sound wont go away. Or at least it wont go away before your back teeth vibrate out of your head from the howl. Perhaps we need an oldtimer with no teeth and crappy hearing to do some long term testing. All i can tell is...

I have come across hubs with a ton of black grease on those pawls that worked fine. BTW shimano has a dip solution that cleans and lubes the hub internals, as per their manual. Good luck finding this and the price is alot if yer just doing one or two hubs. I suspect the white grease thins and...

I have to agree with this. I work on these hubs for my bread and butter. I work in a cruiser shop and fixing rental cruisers on the side. The one thing i noticed at first was older hubs had the black grease in the brake area and went for miles as rentals without noise. However, alot of the hubs...