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Benzine
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PostPosted: Mon Feb 06, 2006 8:56 pm Post subject: YFZ axle bearings Reply with quote Back to top

Noticed my bike wasnt riding as good as it normally does...found the axle housing bearings are flogged..any body else had this problem?..bike is only one year old

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Benzine
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PostPosted: Tue Feb 07, 2006 8:56 pm Post subject: Reply with quote Back to top

Beech wrote:
Kevin, we've always put a grease nipple in the bearing carrier this sorts it out real well.


Great..thanks...

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PostPosted: Thu Feb 09, 2006 12:27 pm Post subject: Reply with quote Back to top

i alway put some anti seize in the axle where it fits into the bearings to. If you don't take your axle out regularly for greasing the bearings it will seize in the bearing and be a bitch to get out.
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trent
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PostPosted: Thu Feb 09, 2006 6:50 pm Post subject: Reply with quote Back to top

i had the same thing with my 660 that it was about 2 years.then it let go .we put 2 grease nipples in the rear.
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PostPosted: Sat Oct 14, 2006 3:58 pm Post subject: Reply with quote Back to top

i had the same thing happen bike wasnt even a year old and i had a axle put in it 6 months prior ,, the grease nipple sounds like the go if not pull em out and grease them up every 3rd or 4th oil change and while your at it do the swing arm bearings aswell
 
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