How and with what do you lube your cables. I have braded steel cables on my 07 road king. Do you have to get some kind of oil to run down the inside of the cables?

 

Dry Slide works pretty well or I knox.

 

Might want to find out what kind of cables you have. If your clutch cable is teflon coated, you don't oil it or it will give you problems.

 

+1 for the Inox. Great product. Comes with an injector tip to slide inside cable.

 

Newer models have the teflon cables I believe, if you do use any lube use a dry lube like tri-flow, dryslide etc. A wet lube or oil will gums things up fast.

 

Do you think Drislide would be good for brake pistons? Also, I think the problem with lubricating the new cables is not so much gumming things up but eating into the teflon coating and destroying it.


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A very well thought out combination of ingredients for metal lubrication applications where grease would be too thick.

 

I don't have my manual within reach but there must be a maintenance interval for the cable if lubing is necessary. I'll check my manual later....

 

It is not required and we are even told not to lube the new teflon cables. Last winter (only when it was cold) my clutch cable dragged and made a terrible noise, it has since cleared up with the warm weather, but I was thinking maybe some type of lube might help during the cold months.

 

I believe my 2011 SM does say to lube cables(clutch)every 5K.I have done this using Motion Pro cable lube with no issues.

 

What MY did Harley switch to the teflon cables that don't need to be lubed?