Maintenance Tips On Your Skateboard Trucks

As fair as most of you know from (You Tube) and other forum that people are giving suggestions on how to maintaining there skateboard trucks.  Some of these ideas are just to old fashioned for the kind of money we are spending on our set ups these days and need more protection for them to last. Things that just need to stop as fair as using soap,wax, 3/1 oil, bees wax, WD/40 need to stop.  I have seen it on pivot cups king pins and other parts and it is not helping your trucks work better, just gumming it up more with extra gunk it will not need. After the soap wear out or wax it gets filled with dust and dirt and starts to weir the parts or break it down. Any waxed based materiel is no good to, it heats up to quickly and just will wear out parts to quickly.  Plastic and urethane's and rubbers are made from oil and there not to be mixed with other oil based materials like 3/1 oil, WD/40, same with bees wax, wax and soap.  There is a lot of materiel out there that have been used in commercial uses and household uses that are much better.   Another thing don't use paint thinner acetone or any kind of paint strippers for cleaning bearings. For cleaning bearing use distilled alcohol or orange simple green cleaner for cleaning bearing. So what materials are made to help that will work the best and lasts?  Teflon is the best along with silicone grease, lithium grease, Triflow, and Teflon tape.  All these are used with plastic parts and are the best protection for your trucks. The greases are made to get up to high temperatures and will help to protect parts.  The Teflon tape is made to cover threads on long king pins and keep bushing from getting extra wear and grinding.   These simple steps will help with making your trucks work well and last.  KEEP your skateboard clean every few weeks if you are riding all the times and this will help.  Greases will stop the dust and dirt from getting inside moving parts and is the best protection against wear.  It is not hard just takes some time but will keep your trucks tuned and will last longer.
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