Grease or lack there of

[emry]

My steering had begun to get a little stiff lately so I tore into it to find....

 

Yes, water in the steering head bearings. Not a trace of grease in the whole steering head. Guess this explains why the factory didn't lube the spline drive either. Must of been out grease for the year.

 

So adding one plus one I checked the swingarm bearnings and alas, no grease.

It would seem that the factory mearly installed all of the bikes bearings fresh out of the package.

 

Had to replace the steering bearings, the water had puddled on the small rubber cover at the bottom, the one that helps to keep the dirt out of the theorically greased bearings. The bottom one had rusted pretty significantly.

 

says check it all, it probably was not done right in the first place.