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Date Posted: Tue April 27, 2010 11:27:54AM
Author: Dave in NC
Subject: Re: drive shaft spline greasing
In reply to: stan 's message, "drive shaft spline greasing" on Mon April 26, 2010 6:42:19PM

Stan, I did everything you are planning on tackling two years ago when I had the rear tire off.
1) The splines at the rear of the shaft are accessable once the final drive is removed.
2) There are splines on the front of the shaft where it connects to the front bevel case. You do need to remove the swingarm. Getting the swingarm out once the rear tire is removed and the final drive is off is easy. I did it solo. That also gave me the chance the grease and torque the swing arm bearings.
3) The pin in the front can be depressed through a hole in the front of the shaft. It is held in by a spring clip on the inside of the front bevel shaft. Remove the shaft slowly and put your hand over the hole to keep the pin from flying out and rolling under your work bench like I did. I had to move the work bench to retrieve it. It gave me the chance to clean 5 years of dead bugs and dust out from under it.
Overall, very easy job if you are mechanically inclined, just time consuming especially if you are like me and spend hours cleaning stuff you can't see just to have the piece of mind that it is cleaned.
And if you've never done the oil in the rear shocks, they are half way off at this point. There is a very nice step by step instructions for this either in this sites FAQ's or another, I just forget which.

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