Just want to clarify this is my first post. I used the search function but may have missed something.
So my dad recently gave me his 78' GS400 (my first bike) that hasn't been ridden since he estimates 1983. Regardless, I've been going through it and over the past few days removed the rear wheel assembly and took off the swingarm to lube the spacers, needle bearings, pivot bolt, etc
I took out the spacers and while i was lubing the needle bearings with my finger I felt a thin washer floating freely in the tube-- it looked to be about the size and thickness of a key ring maybe slightly bigger. Looking at the Clymers manual there were no pieces in the diagram that fit what it was.
Could it have been part of the cage the needle bearings are housed in? And should I be worried? I dismissed it earlier and reattached the swingarm to the frame but now it's troubling me.
-NewRider
So my dad recently gave me his 78' GS400 (my first bike) that hasn't been ridden since he estimates 1983. Regardless, I've been going through it and over the past few days removed the rear wheel assembly and took off the swingarm to lube the spacers, needle bearings, pivot bolt, etc
I took out the spacers and while i was lubing the needle bearings with my finger I felt a thin washer floating freely in the tube-- it looked to be about the size and thickness of a key ring maybe slightly bigger. Looking at the Clymers manual there were no pieces in the diagram that fit what it was.
Could it have been part of the cage the needle bearings are housed in? And should I be worried? I dismissed it earlier and reattached the swingarm to the frame but now it's troubling me.
-NewRider
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