Out for a ride today on this bike and the Bendix 2 speed “kickback” started to squeak. I decided to tear it apart and re-grease it when I got back. This was my first time taking apart a Bendix Automatic. Everything looked to be in really good shape including the grease except for one set of bearings. Hopefully that was the noise problem. I cleaned, greased and reassembled everything. I had to make one tool (upper right of photo) to loosen an adjusting cone lock nut but other than that it went a lot better than I expected. With the wheel back on the bike and the bike on the repair stand it seems to be working ok. I”ll have to road test it later.
