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recently gave my newly acquired 05 turner a complete rebuild and changed any worn bushings/pivots etc +lubed properly with prep M. I don't have a torque wrench and just snugged up the H/L whilst giving the other pivots a good tightening. The bike rode great but under hard pedalling creaked which I eventually traced to the H/L pivots. I've taken them apart and tried various torques ( I know that they recommend 3.3ft/lbs) . the noise seems to disappear for a while then come back again.
Any advice/experience/suggestions would be much appreciated.
thanks in advance
Bill
I've never had a creak on my '05 Spot & all the maintenance I've ever done is squirt some Prep-M into the zerks now & again. I really don't think you should be getting any creaking as it's not something I've heard associated with these bikes. Might be worth asking the Turner geeks on mtbr if you're brave enough.
Are you sure it is not cable noise? Otherwise it shouldn't make a peep!
Disconnect the stay from the rocker and cycle it backwards and forwards to isolate the pivot. If everything is assembled and lubed correctly, then they may just need breaking in if you've got a particularly tight shaft/bush combination. Could try swapping the two HL shafts to see if that makes a difference.
definately the h/l
have seen some other posts on mtbr re this problem but no specific reason/solution
it doesn't creak if i loosen them enough but by then you get a lttle play between the pivot and frame which initially looks like worn bushings but actually isn't!
doof...I'll try swapping the shafts/pivots over (they were new 100miles ago) but I can't see what isolating the pivot by your method would prove as it only creaks under heavy pedal loads (i'm 105kg btw)
I had a creak under hard pedalling on my 05 that I was convinced was my driveside HL and no matter what I did I couldn't get it to go. It turned out I had clouted my mechhanger and rather than bend it had cracked right through on of the bolt holes, most of the way across its depth. I changed that staight away and its been fine ever since. I've stopped eating mechs in the rear wheel too.
It's notoriously difficult to get grease into the horst links, and if you've got a really tight shaft/bush interface (fnarr!) then you might have scraped off all the grease when you assembled it.
(The other longer axles have a helical groove in to help the grease flow, not the case for the horst ones. A bit of work with a 3 square file can create said helix though - search on the MTBR Turner forum - I believe Tcheezy did it first)
I've done that mod to the HL pivots on mine, and it certainly makes a difference to getting some grease into those pivots! Not that I had a creak in the first place, it just seemed like a good idea to me.
HL replacement kits have been threaded for a good few years now.