final drive

[Bc fisherman]

after seeing the pics of Valmacmiami,s blown drive I pulled mine off the bike and greased the splines and just had a feel to see if it was ok and it seems to be but the splines were bone dry. All new 60% molly on them now did the driver sline to the wheel aswell

 

[ruzzle]

It's a little deceptive because Moly Paste "dries" to a bronze-looking film that you might think was rust. Still, it's a good thing to slather new stuff on nice and thick, my bike loves it!

What Val blew was the pinion gear, stripped the teeth off, prolly due to no OIL in the diff. (He said it was empty.) Either that, or he's running about five hundred horse......

 

[Bc fisherman]

Yeah I saw that and I just thought that It was time to feel it out and see if it felt like it was getting sloppy but it feels good . And I did not know that about the molly paste looking like rust good to know but its bin over 12,000 klm since I had the drive off it was due

 

[valmacmiami]

I greased my splines and changed oil recently reason I didnt notice oil leaking out was i had put so much grease on splines problem was probably oil seal which failed and dumped oil but something in there was causing noise 60,000 very hard miles

 

[Bc fisherman]

I have 70,000 klm On mine and it has bin serviced and cheked regularly and I grease the splines so I am hopeing that I dont have a failer I find that its easyer to feel for problems if you got it off and in your hand . now we just have find out were to get the parts to rebuild them I did not see anything as to were they are made did you find anything on the inside ?

 

[valmacmiami]

basically had to destroy it to get it opened up i needed the bolt that was broken on mine had to cut the casing to get it

 

[valmacmiami]

Sparky I just re read your old posts and yes it was same deal however I think people should pay more attention to oil level rather than greasing splines
Running a car tire probably doesnt help but I regularly do 5to 10 thousand mile runs and dont have much time tochange a tire in the middle so i will stick with car tire I wish it had been made a sticky as I had warning of this and thought it was the output shaft bearing
which i changed cheers for the info mate,

 

[valmacmiami]

I have been making a new bolt for the bevel drive where it bolts to the rear shock the drawing on bike bandit says 8mm but the one on Bishops manual says it is the same as the upper one which looks to be 10mm does anyone know what size this is

 

[Gothlander]

I am fairly sure they are the same as the top and I think the bottom one is longer.

EDIT

Bike bandit says 8mmm, it looks like they are the same but the washers are different sizes.