grease zerts for the swingarm etc?

[Guest seuadr]

i just know i saw a how to written up by some awesome person on here about adding grease zerts to various locations on the first gen bikes... but i can't for the life of me find it. does anyone have a link saved to it?

 

I searched for grease, grease inserts swingarm grease. I am probably just blind, so would someone please give me a nudge in the right direction? thanks in advance!

 

Jared:banana:

[dingy]

See my post in the thread below.

 

http://www.venturerider.org/forum/showthread.php?t=43827

 

 

Gary

 

 

i just know i saw a how to written up by some awesome person on here about adding grease zerts to various locations on the first gen bikes... but i can't for the life of me find it. does anyone have a link saved to it?

 

I searched for grease, grease inserts swingarm grease. I am probably just blind, so would someone please give me a nudge in the right direction? thanks in advance!

 

Jared:banana:

[a1bummer]

Thanks for that link! I've been looking for it as well.

[dingy]

Another thing that I did when I installed zerts in arm was to take a dremel tool and make a very small groove in the bushing where the zert runs into it.

 

I took a small cutoff wheel and ran the groove radially along the bushing.

 

About 1/16" deep.

 

This gives the grease a path to distribute around bushing a little better.

 

Gary

[Guest seuadr]

good thinking.. and an excuse to buy a dremel! i just ordered everything to rebuild the forks and all the master/slave cylinders on the bike today, got tires 2 days ago, new r1 calipers and SS brake lines (thanks skydoc!) man, everything is comming together except for the weather!

[Guest seuadr]

just a little bump with a possible correction?

 

after reading the tech article it mentions a 1/4 by 24 tap as (i'm assuming) that the zerts had a 1/4th by 24 thread pitch.

 

after searching high and low, i found out that (at least locally) the zerts they have here are 1/4th by 28 thread pitch and the hardware guy i spoke to at mid state bolt and screw was not familar with a 1/4th by 24 thread zert. just something to think about.