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It would help if you could identify the specific joints that are the noisiest. It's likely a combination of your rear shock, your swingarm's connection to the frame, and the subframe joints. Sometimes you can't do much with older bikes short of replacing the parts, but cleaning and greasing it should help you.

WD40 is simply a water displacement. It doesn't grease anything, it just helps remove the water, and it's especially helpful if youre trying to unscrew or pull out something and it's stuck, as it will temporarily lubricate what you spray it on.

If you want to get rid of squeaks in the joints, either get some spray lubricant(like a silicone based one, something like this) or you can tear the bike down and apply grease(just get a tub of it and it'll last you years, something like this) to a lot of the moving parts. The rear shock is something you definitely don't wanna be taking apart unless you know what you're doing, so try just putting grease on the outsides of the joints or getting spray lubricant and spraying it in the joints.

I recommend the grease method, as the silicone spray often doesn't do a long term job and it isn't nearly as water proofing. Try to find some videos of how to take apart dirt bikes, and apply those concepts to your bike. Every bike is different, but if you watch some klx 125 teardown videos, you'll catch on. Pretty much you can take off everything except the rear shock/swingarm and still be able to put it back on easily.

Use a screw driver to pry off the cap. Check youtube to see what I mean.

Of course, you don't need to remove any of this to grease them, you can use any aerosol lubricant that is able to use volatiles as a carrier to deposit the lube into the joint, then evaporates leaving the lube in place.

Silicon spray is perfect for door hinges. Won't leave any visible nastiness either.

https://www.wd40specialist.com/products/silicone-lubricant/

https://www.amazon.com/Permatex-80070-Silicone-Lubricant-Aerosol/dp/B000HBM5S2

WD-40 is not meant to be used as a general lubricant. It strips most grease off of whatever it is sprayed on. I would use something like silicone spray or electronics grease to stop the squeaking.

Permatex 80070 Silicone Spray Lubricant

Super Lube(R) Multi-Purpose Grease


Since people are going to tell me I'm an idiot and that WD-40 is too a lubricant here is their own words on it.

WD-40® Myths, Legends & Fun Facts

Everyone's had this happen to them at least once, haha.

Fun fact though, if you happen to have it around, silicon spray like this will disperse the bubbles very quickly and ease cleanup.

That will work, but I prefer aerosol sprays for my hockey gear. It's all chemically identical. Just spray it on and wipe it down with a rag.

Permatex 80070 Silicone Spray Lubricant, 10.25 oz. net Aerosol Can https://www.amazon.com/dp/B000HBM5S2/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_awd_Fmb7wbVNP1F5A

My local window guy out here looked at your picture and suggested that this was a bad idea. His reasoning was that the frame that you want to attach it to is pretty thin. He is worried that if you apply too much force, you'd pull the frame away from the glass, ruining the seal. Then the glass would be loose, and it could leak in a storm. Not to mention condensation between the panes.

If the reason you want to do this is because it takes too much effort to open the window, I suggest that you vacuum all the dirt and debris out of the window track, then use some spray lubricant to make it easier to operate:

https://www.amazon.com/Permatex-80070-Silicone-Lubricant-Aerosol/dp/B000HBM5S2

spray that down with crc. salt water corrosion on a honda is common

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https://www.amazon.com/CRC-Industries-06007-Multi-Purpose-Lubricant/dp/B000M8Q02M

• Cut the ends off
  
• Attach the new CAT6, without ends, to an end of the old cable
  
• Apply just enough cable KY to get movement
  
• Pull godammit

If there’s some crap in there that won’t blow out, next step would be electronics lubricant:
Max Professional 4125 Electronics Lubricant, 11 oz. - 11 oz. https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0030MPJ8S/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_api_GyuWAbGAQE58T

> And putting some sort of lube on it would probably wear down the tension faster than normal

it should wear out slower, because there's less friction working to grind up the surfaces where they meet.

> I feel like that would eventually leak into the base and mess it up.

I could see it leaking into the base if too much lube is applied. It probably wouldn't need more than 2 or 3 drops. If you want to be extra safe, use an electronics lubricant that indicates it is safe to use with plastics, like this one. I haven't used that one, specifically, so treat it as an example rather than a recommendation