man thats awsome info. and a good reminder to those who havent to check those swingarm bearings out. B)

 

Nice thanks for that I did that recently but didn't get pic's, I didn't put those grease fittings on but I think that I will now mine were dry as crap, any more you can tell us about thos grease fittings?

 

Excellent How-to, Kevin! Thanks for posting. I hate that this bike doesn't have any grease fittings on it. While bleeding my front brakes tonight I was thinking that there needed to be zerks on the top and bottom of the front spindle, and on the a-arm pivots. and on the steering stem, and the.....on and on.....

Did you use anything to seal that freeze plug? I've got bearings on order, I would like to install the freeze plugs and zerks when i do mine.

 

Awsome!! Could we have this pinned to top, or put in a handy reference place so we can find it next month after it gets forgotten about?

 

eyedoc,

Save this to your favorites: http://www.700v.com/

I keep it handy

 

Great info, thanks.

 

Holy crap Kev....that bearing is facked...

Oh...btw..what does this mean?

"Remove the old bearings and races"

Intrested in how to remove races from the bike...

 

V800 - Nothing special about the grease fittings, you can buy a package of them at Advance.


Bandaman - Freeze plugs are a tight fit, I don't see anything getting by them.

Eyedoc - You can link from the spring chart that is pinned

Docpoof - if your bearings look as bad as mine did, you're going to want to new races also. You can put a socket in through the hole where the driveshaft goes and then insert a long extension into the socket. Place the socket end against the race from behind and tap the extension with a hammer and the race will pop out.

 

Originally posted by BANDAMAN@Dec 29 2004, 10:10 PM
eyedoc,

Save this to your favorites: http://www.700v.com/

I keep it handy

Sweet--Thanks Bandy!! and Kevin M

 

This is why I joined this site, for info like this...Thanks Kevin.

 

im blasting the "V" by this weekend, paint by sunda or monday i hope. now that the swingarm is out it'll be a great time to do it on mine to. man did mine look like smurf!!! what a crap design!!!

 

Awesome step by step instructions. Next time I replace mine, I may just go ahead and do it myself. Thank you for posting them!

 

yo kevin... i tried a 35.22mm freeze plug. way too big i'll check monday if another sixe is better. there couldn't be more than one size swing arm, could there? <_< <_<

 

That may have been a 34.22mm plug instead of a 35.22. Try a 34mm if you can find one.

 

Better then the book .

 

Thanks for the info

 

TTT