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I thought there was a thread on here, but couldn't find it. My 6000km/3 year old Direto has developed a squeak. You hear it on startup (I assume when the pulley initially engages) and then on any revolution of the cranks. It's not horrible and I don't think I can feel it through the pedals, but I am having to turn my music up louder every week 😉
I assume the belt is dry. I can see how to pull the cover off by unscrewing about 9 screws and then I'd get access to the belt. At which point I was going to see if it looked in decent nick, and if so just add some silicon grease or spray.
Anyone else done this? Any horror stories of turbo then exploding or anything? Ta.
I have a drivo and need to lightly grease just the outer edges of the belt every 6 months or so
it's a weird sort of warbling noise that you think can't be the belt, but greasing it definitely shuts it all up
Not sure if a drivo and direto share a lot of internals though
I googled it and saw a Drivo vid. That was definitely a different sound. Hard to see how adding a bit of silicon spray could make it any worse. I think I'll at least have a look and see if there's anything obviously wrong.
It can be the "beep" of the tension constantly adjusting. I took my cover off, stuck some Parkes grease on the end of the stepper motor spindle and it all went quiet.
I guess it constantly moves a tiny bit to keep appropriate tension.
That makes sense. Right I'm off for a look!
Belt is fine. Stepper motor however…. How do you get in and lube that. Looks buried in the chassis.
no idea why that vid didn't embed. Changed to a link now. It's a lot noisier than that and it happens all the time. I'm bored of Zwift tho so if it's actually broken, its a good excuse to do some other exercise.
I emailed elite. Had a very fast response. Saying 'we're on holiday' 🙂
If it happens during start up (at this point the belt isn't moving) its probably the threaded axle for the stepper motor that needs greasing. Theres a small panel on the left hand side of the trainer that's held in place with 4 small screws that gives access to the stepper motor. Much simpler to access than the cover for the belt side which has about a million screws.
Thats ^^^ what i did last week. Now quiet and smooth.
Fab. Thanks both. I misunderstood Kryton's original post until I had both sides in bits. Yep screw was dry, added a thin layer of decent grease and all is quiet.
Except the drivetrain, but that's due to the laughable slop in the original apex mech. I've decided that's for another night 😉