I was djing at a night club and there was a little

i was djing at a night club and there was a little bit of crown and coke spilled on the top of it. i cleaned it off and it worked fine, i thought it was no big deal and then the next night when i started to warm up i noticed that it would play fine but the turntable has a lag on it when you move it like as if the top white part with the three holes in it to lock it when you recive it in shiping was sticking to the bottom part. as if it needed some wd-40. would cilicone spay help??