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How Do You Restore A Speed King

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I too decided to break-down my SK for clean and lube.

How and the heck do you get the bearings out? I tried gingerly grabbing the inside race with needle nose pliers but no way Jose'!

If I re-pack with grease as they sit, what is the best grease to use? Standard auto wheel bearing grease?

Also, the tension screws were tightened all the way in. Why would anyone do that?

I thought that the pedal action was normal, but I have never tried any other SK pedal.

Anybody have an original clamp t-screw they can sell me?

Thanks.

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Posted on 12 years ago
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Great advice on this post , just serviced my speed king and its worked like a dream.

Posted on 12 years ago
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From checker758

Hi All,Thought I'd share this helpful hint about removing Speed King grease caps with fellow Speed King owners. I recently picked up my first Speed King, and it needed a good going over. I searched here and elsewhere online for recommendations on the best way to remove the grease caps, which are pressed tightly into their holes and not easily removed. No one seemed to have "the" answer. Someone said drilling a tiny hole in the top of the housing so you can insert a skinny implement and push the cap out from the inside works (but then you're left with a hole that needs to be filled, something I didn't want to do.) Someone elsewhere said that after you take the springs and pushrods out from the bottom, you can use an air compressor with some sort of fitting on the end of the hose that will fit into the hole at the bottom of the base to force the cap out with air pressure - I actually tried this with no luck, because I couldn't get a seal around the hole, and the other end where the cap and bearings are is isn't airtight either, so I couldn't get enough pressure. Elsewhere in this thread it was recommended that forcing grease into the hole will build up enough pressure to push the cap off from the inside - it seems like a good plan, but I didn't try this one because I don't have an automtive grease gun handy. One suggestion I read elsewhere seemed logical and promising: use heat from a propane or similar torch to heat up the housing the cap is pressed into, being careful to not heat the cap as well, so that the expansion of the housing would allow the cap to come loose. But then someone else pointed out that this would damage the paint or the finish of the metal, and could damage or warp the housing and/or bearings as well.I was thinking about this problem later, and had a sudden brainstorm. What if instead of using [COLOR="Red"]heat[/COLOR] to expand the housing the cap is fitted into, you used [COLOR="MediumTurquoise"]COLD[/COLOR] to just shrink the cap?So here's what I did: first I sprayed some WD40 around the edges of the cap and let it soak into whatever microscopic gap there was between the cap and the housing. Then I grabbed a can of air used to blow dust off of computer keyboards. If you simply spray this air as directed, the temperature of the air is cool, but if you invert the can and spray while it's upside down, the spray comes out as a super-frigid liquid (cold enough to cause instant frostbite on your skin, so be careful!) Using this method I squirted the center of the grease cap for a couple of seconds until it was obviously frosted over. Then I gave it another squirt of WD40 to lubricate what I hoped was now a slightly opened gap around the grease cap. Another very quick squirt of 'liquid air', and then I tapped the pedal housing sharply a couple of times against a piece of wood (the edge of my work bench) so as not to damage the housing, and the cap popped out. Voila!The entire time from "brainstorm" to "grease cap in hand" was about 3 minutes.I hope this helps someone out!Scott

Does anyone know where to get parts for the speed king. I need the piston that sits on top of the spring?

Thanks

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Posted on 12 years ago
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Thanks for the post. I have an old Speed King I've been wanting to repair but I didn't know where to start.

Posted on 12 years ago
#64
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Thanks to everyone for all the hints! I may be tackling this little job soon.

I'm no guru, just a vintage drum junkie!

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Posted on 12 years ago
#65
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Thanks for all tips here!

I will soon go for pulling out the caps.

The problem is that somebody hit the edge of post (probably to keep the cap tighter) with a hammer(?), so this will be tricky to pull the cap out. I will try to loose the edges with WD-40..

Pedal itself works good, but it's squeaking from bearing. Have to fix it.

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Posted on 12 years ago
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Okay...did a job yesterday with use of WD40 and bikechain grease.

Speedy performs significantly lighter!

My approach was to not dismantle every part possible. Just take screws and caps off and penetrate bearings heavily.

Springs I already greased few days ago so it was just about to check if there is still some problem there. But weren't, luckily.

Ball bearing is different story. After pulling the cap my eyes seen a lot of old, partially dried, stain of grease mixed with dust/dirt/something.

First I sprayed WD40 inside to make it more like liquid and clean it out. It was pretty difficult, I sprayed 3-4 times, then wait 5-10 minutes. Then I sprayed WD40 to bearing, after few minutes I put new grease, and filled it in the "hole" almost to the top of cap closing.

Reserve for the job approx. 2 hours

Use safety gloves when using WD40..it seriously irritates the skin.

Adjust position of the post vertically to let the gravity do the job for spray to penetrate.

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Posted on 12 years ago
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I have an old speed king and the plunger was missing. I couldn't find the part so I went to a local machinist who happen to make bass drum pedals, anyway he made a new plunger for me.. In the meantime I ended up loosing one of the bearings ARGGHH. Does anyone know where I can get a bearing. My dealer had no idea. Also if you remove the spring and plunger you can gently pull the pedal part out ot the housing and pop the caps off from the inside.. does that make sense, I'll take some pics this w/e..

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Posted on 12 years ago
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From radioking

Does anyone know where I can get a bearing. My dealer had no idea.

You find an answer in One of the last posts on page 6 of this thread.

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