http://bluecollarmtb.com/2007/08/02/barstem-grease/ Mountain Bike Reviews, News, Deals and How Tos Fri, 25 May 2012 02:24:55 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=abc hourly 1 http://bluecollarmtb.com/2007/08/02/barstem-grease/comment-page-1/#comment-102583 Greg B Thu, 02 Aug 2007 18:17:14 +0000 http://bluecollarmtb.com/2007/08/02/barstem-grease/#comment-102583 Hey! I recently had this trouble. A cracking (!) noise coming from the left side of my handlebar, or so it seemed, whenever I was climbing. Since I ride a SS, it was the only noise save for my tires humming on the ground, and it drove me nuts. I took the bar and stem off, greased all mating metal surfaces, including the bolts, with some white lithium grease, presto, problem solved. applied it only lightly on the steerer-stem and stem-bar interfaces. I worry, however, about over- or under- torquing the (steel) stem to the (aluminum) bar since I don't have a torque wrench (yet). Advice? Did I do anything wrong? Hey! I recently had this trouble. A cracking (!) noise coming from the left side of my handlebar, or so it seemed, whenever I was climbing. Since I ride a SS, it was the only noise save for my tires humming on the ground, and it drove me nuts. I took the bar and stem off, greased all mating metal surfaces, including the bolts, with some white lithium grease, presto, problem solved. applied it only lightly on the steerer-stem and stem-bar interfaces. I worry, however, about over- or under- torquing the (steel) stem to the (aluminum) bar since I don’t have a torque wrench (yet). Advice? Did I do anything wrong?

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