Clutch cable oiler?

Hi all,

Not sure if I posted in the right section?

Would anybody have a cable oiler that I could drop in use?
Or is there an effective way to do it without the oiler?

Thanks
Peter

 

Grab one from cmc. $10 or so.

 

there is but most punters couldn't be bothered because its old-school and dirty - but it is very effective.

use a plastic shopping bag - flatten it out so it is double-thickness. Poke a small hole in it - then poke the end of the clutch cable into the hole. Cable-tie the plastic bag around the cable. Lift the bag up and hang it off a nail on the fence. Empty some clean engine oil into the bag so it fills up the section that the cable is poking through - you won't need much if the bag is hanging properly, maybe 200ml at most. Leave it overnight. The level of the oil needs to be 3cm at least, above the cable.

This will lube the entire cable simply by virtue of gravity as the oil finds its way down the cable inner. The cable-tie needs to be tight so you don't have oil dripping down the outside of the cable.

This method has been used for decades and is by far the most effective way of lubing the entire length of the cable with oil. The pressure-lubers that use WD40 are OK if you just want to lube the cable with WD. I prefer oil. It lasts heaps longer.

yeh its a bit dirty and fiddly compared to the pressure-lube method, personally I don't give a shit about that.

 

Cable ties, hmm a modern tweek, I still use elastic bands
The old chain oil with built in graphite was good ... can you still get that stuff?

 

I end up going and buying one. Didn't realize they were so cheap.

But the method explained does sound very effective.