Sorry chaps, but the guts of my hub have now been soaking in ATF for most of the day (with occasional agitation) and the plan is to let it drip off overnight so I can reassemble tomorrow. In anticipation of this I've been checking online the oiling procedure and I'm a bit puzzled by one aspect of it.
What seems to be the best YT video shows the oiling done in a special Shimano pot, which is filled up to a depth of 95mm before the internals are dunked therein for 90 seconds. That depth of oil in that pot seems to soak it just about up to the bottom of the small planet gears that protrude outside the body. So the plan is to simply plonk my hub internals in my tub drive-end uppermost and fill it so the oil comes up to that same level.
Any ideas why the level is seemingly so critical?
And why that specific 90 seconds?
What seems to be the best YT video shows the oiling done in a special Shimano pot, which is filled up to a depth of 95mm before the internals are dunked therein for 90 seconds. That depth of oil in that pot seems to soak it just about up to the bottom of the small planet gears that protrude outside the body. So the plan is to simply plonk my hub internals in my tub drive-end uppermost and fill it so the oil comes up to that same level.
Any ideas why the level is seemingly so critical?
And why that specific 90 seconds?
