final drive -- dry !!!

[Wrecka]

 

[Rocket Scientist]

A man of few words that one

 

[Grumpy Ole Codger]

A man of few words that one

A picture says a 1000 words...

 

[Jag]

Should this thread be moved to,
The Final Drive?
I’m confused by the title ! Lol

 

[Wrecka]

Did you read my post, or just copy it and make a statement? I said that our r3 forum has a lot of knowledge when I compared it to the Valk sites I used to participate in. I didn’t say their was a lack of information at all. I’m talking about how on the VRCC board and other Valk sites, the guys had a catalog of maintenance tasks that was available to all that was useful to actually use as a maintenance procedure task list. Wheel removal, rear end maintenance, coolant changeout, things like that.
My comment about the lesser r3 following is in comparison to the old Valk boards. There were simply more members because the bike was so popular. I have a r3 tourer, and obviously, their are many more roadster owners here too.
This is exactly why I seldom post. Something is taken out of context so easily.
Thanks, and take care, Eric

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[Ishrub]

A man of few words that one

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Stop picking on him Fred, he just has a stutter

 

[Eric R.]

I wasn't dissing you. I see what your talking about. At work we have "SOP's" (standard operating procedures) for everything. I have written a few of them myself. Your right, in that we don't really have anything like that here in a centralized area. Usually there is only one person at a time, going through something major, and those that can, try to walk them through it. I'll agree it's sometimes difficult to go back and find those threads.

Thanks poobah, I appreciate your post.

 

[barbagris]

If I may butt in here a bit. I have a 2015 r3t. I am interested in doing as much of my own work as I can. When I had my two Valkyries, I used to enjoy doing the work, such as what you guys are discussing here. The forum had a lot of knowledge just like I see here. We had a section just for maintenance tasks that some of the experienced guys had put together. I learned from them how to do a job like splines and driveshaft maintenance. I got pretty confident doing a lot of things on my own.
With my Triumph, is my best source a service manual? I have tried some random searching here and there. Their just doesn’t seem to be as much of a following with the r3 as their was in the time of the Valkyrie.

Look for any post by @idk - in his signature you'll find the manual. It's a good start naturally.

 

[Eric R.]

Look for any post by @idk - in his signature you'll find the manual. It's a good start naturally.

Thankyou much, Ill have a look.
Take care, Eric

 

[leatal]

I just removed my rear wheel gearbox to lube the shaft splines and discovered the factory used ordinary grease to both the shaft splines and the wheel splines. Both still looked new with plenty of clean grease around the splines (9500 miles). Maybe they did it like that to ensure the splines stayed wet with grease? I did purchase the Locktite moly and will probably reassemble the shaft splines using a smear of both type (moly and standard) greases to the shaft spline. I will assemble the gearbox to wheel splines with the Maintenance Manual recommended grease.