Anyone grease rear needle bearing?

Journeyman said:

I've just used auto parts store moly grease- I haven't worried about it, maybe as much as I should, as compared to greasing the final drive splines, for example.

As far as the brand, Triumph bounces around with its favored lubricants. I think it changes according to business/price partnerships with companies.

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mo8414 said:

I was thinking about doing the splines as well, it doesn't seem that hard. Thanks

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Journeyman said:

Give it a go- first time is hardest, depending on what the bolts do....

Lube the splines...

At a little over 8k miles I thought it time to lube the splines on the 3R. I'm one of the few who went through a final drive and drive shaft on the older models and have tried since then to do this with every rear tire change or, at least, every other, so every 4 -8,000 miles. Although there was...

www.r3owners.net

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mo8414 said:

I appreciate the link. Im in the rust belt so I'm used to difficult bolts. I just got done doing this guys caliper and rotor today lol

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Journeyman said:

Looks lovely....

On the final drive the potential "problem" is that the nuts are heavy duty locktited on and the studs will sometimes back out of the drive. I go into that in my post. If I were to do it again I would heat up those nuts first to encourage them to free up first. Either way, sounds like you'll have no problem

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