Yeah, I definitely want to do more diagnosis before even attempting surgery! The sound I’m getting at the Moment, which seems to be getting louder, is mostly while idling with both feet. Each time, there’s a fast “TICK-tick-tick,” with the downbeat happening right when my feet switch directions, followed by a brief silence until the other end of my stroke.
The various fixes posted for noisy KH hubs seem different enough that I would guess they probably repaired different defects. There’s your very encouraging story, there’s the green Loctite school of thought, and this thread starts off by mentioning UDC’s unsuccessful attempts 2-3 years ago at an in-house repair of creaking KH hubs by driving some sort of pin through them or something.
Anybody know of a labeled diagram the insides of these hubs so I can visualize what’s going on?