Do you need the "King hub tool" to service your king hub?

[Sam Song]

Hello, I have a King Classic rear hub that started skipping a few teeth recently. I was told that I need to take the hub apart and clean the rear hub internals. I found an ancient tutorial video of Tarty Adam taking a king rear hub apart and he was using a 2/32 allen key as well as a specific King hub tool with T grip at the end. Is that tool absolutely essential for cleaning the internals? Also, I was also told by a friend that trials king hubs need to be run dry without any lubes, is there any truth to that? If you were to use a lube, you would use a triflow right?

[Blake]

You don't really need the handle, you can get the internals out with a punch but it ain't good for the hub. You could clean all the inside up just by taking the driveshell out but it wouldn't be as thorough and a pain in the balls.

In regards to the lube do what adam does in the tarty video. A bit of wet lube. Or there's this video that explains making a lube that's ultra thin:

If you run the hub completely dry it won't do it any good, imagine a bunch of metal rings rubbing against each other. Not ideal

[Blake]

Worth reading through this as well

http://www.trials-forum.co.uk/topic/137562-how-to-make-your-chris-king-louder-and-skip-less/

[Alex Dark]

I would not punch the bearing out at all, I ended up making my own tool because of this.

Chances are you will be able to clean it well enough without a full strip down

[Bint]

Ive serviced 5 kings, probs about 3 times each over 7-8 years and never used a tool, always used an aluminium punch, never broken any internals except the none drive side bearing but you dont take that out to service the hub, i was changing hubshells.