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Adding zerk fittings to rear swing arm?

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Every maintenance proceedure has a work around shortcut...:lol:
 
Youre correct. It impractical and a minor fix. Stick the grease gun in there and pump the cavity full where the bearings are and the bolt goes thru...Does that sound practical and wont waste but 5 minutes of your time??? Thats is running on your accessment that the bearings are still good, of course.
 
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chuck hahn said:
I just cant believe your actually SERIUOSLY contemplating this. Just replace the rusted up bearings and pack them well with grease. As was said earlier...done for the next 20 years or so.
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Why not attach a manual grease gun and pump twice- once a year?...Never change swingarm bearings. Never pull a swing arm. Never experience the poor handling quality of worn bearings.
Shopping list includes some drill bits and zerk fittings! If successful,maybe I'll make a tutorial (swing arm lube points)
 
It is an odd thing but bikes swing arm bearings seem to rust on the chain side.
Likely due to solvents used to clean the chain.
 
JEEPRUSTY said:
It is an odd thing but bikes swing arm bearings seem to rust on the chain side.
Likely due to solvents used to clean the chain.
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Or because while on the side stand any moisture that's got in there settles in that bearing.
 
I bet there's more loading and vibration on the left one too, due to the chain.
Oh well, Cleaning and greasing every twenty years is easy enough.
 
If it weren't for that one washer which was left over, I'd have probubly left it alone. :mad:Tore it back down. Got it disasembled this time.:D That PB blaster helped. Now to study the parts manual to figure out what that danged washer is for.
Tear down sure was much easier the second time....;)
And now I can actualy clean the bearings and decide if they're worth keeping/ repacking....
 
surviverguy said:
Thanks TKent. Every forum needs a guy who does it wrong so others know just what NOT to do!
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Doing it wrong... Adding more and more grease without ever taking out the water and dirt... Adding different types of grease that should not be mixed...
Never opening up the bearings to check their condition.
 
The washer goes inside the end caps..which by the way have a built in rubber seal that needs to be checked. Did you doscover yet that the bearings go i to just the tube part up front and that the entire swing arm isnt one continuous U shape?
 
Yup- it was a thrust washer left out by some newbie...surprisingly those bearings are still in great shape...they won't get replaced this month...;)
 
I was so busy playing with grease and bearings that I forgot to see how that tube was formed! Rubber? ught oh!
 
well I'll be dog gone...there was rubber in there! Had to walk away from it......it sure was easier to assemble before (wrong) without those washers...another pair of hands would be helpful...lost count how many times those caps fell off the end while trying to push that swing arm where it needs to go..WHere's that sawzall? :eek:
 
Tore it down a second time. This time the parts came apart and got cleaned, inspected and lubed properly. Reinstalled. Bolt went through and came out with buggered threads. Removed bolt. Repaired threads and made a pencil shaped punch from a piece of 9/16 bolt. Inserted pencil piece first as a guide to lign everything up and pushed the pencil through with the swing arm shaft (bolt).
It's all done now. Bearings are in good shape and properly lubed. Everything is reassembled and torqued.
Next-.....!
 
Next time I pull it apart- I'll have NEW bearings to knock in there out of GP (general principle)...;)
 
How old are you? If your under 45 then just MAYBE in your lifetime they will need replaced.
 
I'm 45.5 yrs now. I'll remember to replace 'em sometime before my 70th birthday!:D
 
surviverguy said:
The swin arm looks hollow as one "n" shaped assembly ...
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chuck hahn said:
Did you doscover yet that the bearings go i to just the tube part up front and that the entire swing arm isnt one continuous U shape?
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surviverguy said:
I was so busy playing with grease and bearings that I forgot to see how that tube was formed!
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Just looking at the tube, I don't see why Suzuki would have cut holes in the cross-tube to open it up to the legs leading to the axle.

I don't have any chain-driven bikes :dancing:, so I can't check for you (shafty bearings are tapered rollers),
but I think that if you really insist on adding Zerk fittings, they should be in the cross-tube, not the legs.

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