grease the axles?

haunter · Post by **haunter** » Tue Oct 16, 2007 5:11 pm

got her apart for new tires, do I need to grease the axles..?

book mentions nothing, but thought I would double check on here first!

dragracer1951 · Post by **dragracer1951** » Tue Oct 16, 2007 5:57 pm

Good idea just to keep it from siezing

haunter · Post by **haunter** » Tue Oct 16, 2007 6:57 pm

just regular axle grease?

Post by **Hooligan** » Wed Oct 17, 2007 12:11 am

that should work.

djalbin · Post by **djalbin** » Wed Oct 17, 2007 12:16 am

medium weight lithium multi-purpose grease

works for all the frame/suspension pivot points and wheel/axle bearings

hotcam · Post by **hotcam** » Wed Oct 17, 2007 4:52 am

Just a very light coat for anti-corrosion purposes. You want all the rotation to occur in the bearings, not for the bearings to rotate on the axles else the axles will get wear grooves in them. However the nut pressure should normally prevent this. That's why its vital to have the correct spacers and bearing widths.

haunter · Post by **haunter** » Wed Oct 17, 2007 8:58 am

thanks guys!

I hope to be riding again tomorrow night

stupid bike is under a cover outside, so I can't work on it before 6:30 PM it goesnt get done as there is no light

jimcos3 · Post by **jimcos3** » Mon Jul 07, 2008 11:10 pm

Hey guys,

I just put my shock and rear wheel back on and I greased the crap out of everything with some moly grease (it was what I had in my grease gun). I wiped the excess off of course but I packed the needle bearings with it in the swing arm and in the shock pivots. I recently learned to read and saw the recommendation for lithium grase in a few of those areas in the manual. Do you recommend cleaning it out and using a lithium based gease or can I get away with the moly in those areas? What about the steering head bearings as well? Any advice would be appreciated.

Thanks.

hotcam · Post by **hotcam** » Tue Jul 08, 2008 12:09 am

I've always used molybdenum disulfide Mo2S grease because it is also
good for bearings and lithium grease is very hard to get here.
Never replaced the same bearing twice, so it must work.

Yoniboi · Post by **Yoniboi** » Fri Jul 11, 2008 7:20 am

Moly is lithium grease, with Moly added.
At least that's what they told me when I worked at Kuwait Petrolium.

John
ps. Moly grease is better for applications where exposed to water as it isn't as 'washable' as just plain old Lithium grease. I think it's got a higher melting point too.