Noise in final drive area after rear tire change

[Guest GARY844]

Installed new rear tire on 83 Venture. Followed instructions, complete with lithium grease before re-installing wheel and lubing axle. Upon completion fired it up for a test run and got a very loud scraping type noise similiar to worn out metal to metal brake pads on a rotor. Lightly pulled brake handle and no change, stepped on brake pedal and no change. Put in back on the jack, fired it back up, ran it through three gears and no noise. Shut it down, put it in neutral and manually spun the wheel and could not detect any problems. The only wild card I can think of is upon completion with the bike still on the jack, I put the grease gun on the grease zert on the drive shaft housing. It took a lot of grease. I'm wondering with the swing down all the way when it was greased maybe this is causing the problem???? Anybody have suggestions before fight the misquitos and pull it back down?

 

By the way, thanks for the reponses on no rear brakes. I finally elevated the front of the bike and bled off the front, then elevated the rear and did the same. Within 3 or 4 minutes I had rear brakes again. I remembered we had to do that sometimes with ford rangers bleeding clutches.

[mini-muffin]

Muffinman says it sounds like the inside wheel bearing.

 

Margaret

[Venturous Randy]

My first thought is you put the washer in the wrong place and are binding.

The second thing is it sounds like you did not remove the differential and pull the drive shaft and clean and grease it. Pumping a lot of grease into the zerk fitting is a waste of time and grease and a lot of grease in that area is not a good thing. You need to always remove the differential and drive shaft everytime you change the rear tire and grease the splines.

RandyA

[Squidley]

Gary,

Your more than welcome to shoot over to my place and we can figure it out. Trying to detect a noise can be at best difficult at times. I'm not sure where your located, but I could even run to you if your not like in....Escanaba

[wild hair 39]

Gary,

 

Your more than welcome to shoot over to my place and we can figure it out. Trying to detect a noise can be at best difficult at times. I'm not sure where your located, but I could even run to you if your not like in....Escanaba

 

been there,to much grease on the hub,will cause a warp-warp-warp,sound,that seal is a pretty good seal,to mutch grease,causes,pressure,againest the,ring gear

lowell