Swing arm bearing and Shock linkage Lube

Journeyman said:

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...

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Sorry, now back to the swing arm....

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mikevujcich said:

I was told by an official triumph mechanic to do the splines every 15,000 K or face failure of the shaft at about 80,000 K. Tripped me out this was not in the manual.
I notice your studs came out with the castle nuts, I have 2 the same. Did you just reinstall as is, ( I did one the first time around ) , or replace the studs and nuts as the manual says ?.
And if reused what torque did you apply, the 100 N in the manual ?
With no info to go to at the time I went with 70 N like the rear wheel nuts and had no problems.
I could not get the nut off the stud btw.
Back to the swing arm which is on hold till I can get the T3880101 frame adjustment wrench.

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mikevujcich said:

I was told by an official triumph mechanic to do the splines every 15,000 K or face failure of the shaft at about 80,000 K. Tripped me out this was not in the manual.
I notice your studs came out with the castle nuts, I have 2 the same. Did you just reinstall as is, ( I did one the first time around ) , or replace the studs and nuts as the manual says ?.
And if reused what torque did you apply, the 100 N in the manual ?
With no info to go to at the time I went with 70 N like the rear wheel nuts and had no problems.
I could not get the nut off the stud btw.
Back to the swing arm which is on hold till I can get the T3880101 frame adjustment wrench.

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mikevujcich said:

I was told by an official triumph mechanic to do the splines every 15,000 K or face failure of the shaft at about 80,000 K. Tripped me out this was not in the manual.
I notice your studs came out with the castle nuts, I have 2 the same. Did you just reinstall as is, ( I did one the first time around ) , or replace the studs and nuts as the manual says ?.
And if reused what torque did you apply, the 100 N in the manual ?
With no info to go to at the time I went with 70 N like the rear wheel nuts and had no problems.
I could not get the nut off the stud btw.
Back to the swing arm which is on hold till I can get the T3880101 frame adjustment wrench.

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sunny said:

why would splines / shaft needs to be lubed every 15000K,

are there other cars which have same schedule for lubing splines? I dont think so

other BMW motorcycles with shaft doesnt have such schedule as well,

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sunny said:

why would splines / shaft needs to be lubed every 15000K,

are there other cars which have same schedule for lubing splines? I dont think so

other BMW motorcycles with shaft doesnt have such schedule as well,

I think Mechanics will tell a lot of things which brings in more business, its their basic nature to scare the vehicle owners. ( reminds me of mechanics at quick oil changing shops for cars, they are best at doing such things when you go in for quick oil change, you end up repairing a lot more than whats needed)

@Journeyman Did you lube both sides of shaft when you lubed your splines or just the rear side, if just the rear side then how to do the other side going towards engine?

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Einar said:

BMW does, in fact, recommend inspection and lubrication every 20,000 km (12,000 miles) on the R1300GS.

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Journeyman said:

Just the rear. This question has come up before and the answer was that the engine side rarely wears out, but the FD side certainly does and has for me. I replaced the drive shaft on my Roadster, which involved removing the swing arm- so, see, it is "somewhat" thread related ;-). Sorry, again, to the OP for this going off topic...

I don't know about 15k as the magic number (9,321 miles for us Yanks), but I tend to do mine every other rear tire change, which is 4,000 miles- so, ~8,000 miles. I think every third would be OK. But, you definitely need to do it. The Rockets apply a heck of a lot more force there than almost all other bikes and when that lube dries out (which it will) you are going to wear that drive shaft out prematurely. As I've mentioned, I've replace a drive shaft and two final drives on my '11 Roadster. Wait for the mileages to kick up on the 2.5s and we'll be reading here about both going out- just wait....

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sunny said:

my only worry to lube spline that many times / frequency is that we are tightening at 100 NM and its all aluminum/alloy of it, it will wear out the threads on this by removing and tightening that many times, no?

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