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grease the axles?
Posted: Tue Oct 16, 2007 5:11 pm
by haunter
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!
Posted: Tue Oct 16, 2007 5:57 pm
by dragracer1951
Good idea just to keep it from siezing
Posted: Tue Oct 16, 2007 6:57 pm
by haunter
just regular axle grease?
Posted: Wed Oct 17, 2007 12:11 am
by Hooligan
that should work.
Posted: Wed Oct 17, 2007 12:16 am
by djalbin
medium weight lithium multi-purpose grease
works for all the frame/suspension pivot points and wheel/axle bearings
Posted: Wed Oct 17, 2007 4:52 am
by hotcam
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.
Posted: Wed Oct 17, 2007 8:58 am
by haunter
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

Posted: Mon Jul 07, 2008 11:10 pm
by jimcos3
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.
Posted: Tue Jul 08, 2008 12:09 am
by hotcam
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.
Posted: Fri Jul 11, 2008 7:20 am
by Yoniboi
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.