atgatt - damn dumb design

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If you loosen the engine bolt, it lets the frame spread a little bit and the spacer will come out. But it\f it's clean and you've serviced the bearings, you could reassemble now. Mech

--- In DSN_KLR650@yahoogroups.com, "spike55_bmw" wrote: > > In 2009, I installed zerk fittings at all of the appropriate places on the rear swing arm / suspension. I've kept up a routine greasing program since then. > > Last night, I started taking everything apart to replace two fittings that I "smeared" on a rock in early May. All went well until the lower frame bolt area and the 3-lobed lever. Although I had a film of grease on the bolt in 2009, it was "powder coated" from corrosion but it came out. My problem is now with the bearing sleeve. It is stuck in the frame. The routine greasing has kept the bearing in the 3-lobed lever free-moving around the sleeve but.... > > I guess I'll have to leave it soak in WD-40 and use a punch pin to get it to move but what a damn dumb design. Once things are out, I guess I could load up the frame tube with grease upon reassembly but wouldn't that allow the hard steel sleeve to start to rotate in the soft metal frame, thereby becoming the unintentional and substandard bearing? > > ATGATT - All of The Grease All of The Time didn't work for me. Seems like one should remove this lower bolt / sleeve / 3-lobed lever assembly every year. No matter what you do, it corrodes in this east coast climate. > > Don R100, A6F >