Adding zerk grease fitings to Relay Arm

[ionbeam]

@ Enxss

Snowflake/Russ doesn't visit this sandbox often, click his Forum name and send him a PM. He is a neighbor and riding friend, if you can't reach him post here and I'll send him PM.

[Snowflake]

Hi Enxss, I don't have one for sale at the moment. But I can turn yours around fairly quickly, if you send it to me for rebuild. If you believe the bushings, sleeves and seals are in good shape, turnaround is about 3 days. If you need new parts, well thats a different story.
I will PM you my contact info.

[Snowflake]

It's in the mail today. Hope you like it.

[KYFeeJeR]

Tom, We all get to decide what level of risk to take on regarding bike maintenance. For me it is worth it to do this mod for the piece of mind of having these bearings serviced regularly. I do it every spring when I do the rear brake lever pivot (also a zerk), the shift lever, the clutch lever and front brake lever. I've rebuilt enough FJR relay arms to know that the inner sleeves can get trashed. I have no record of the maintenance on those trashed ones.

Pants,

First question, yes. Although I think I drilled the 3/32 'passageway' hole first, then drilled and tapped the zerk fitting hole. The bearing race slots are put in with a .025" thick grinding wheel, not a drill.

I'll try to explain the DogBone sleeve greasing a little better:

The cavity in the relay arm for the two dog bone sleeve bearings is slightly bigger than the sleeve. The hole I drill for the zerk fitting goes into the middle part of the relay arm between the two bearings. There is only one zerk fitting for the middle bearings. I make no modifications to the middle bearings.

To grease the middle bearings, first push the inner sleeve to one side about 1/16" inboard of the bearing seal. Then pump grease into the zerk until you see grease coming out around outside of the sleeve and inside of the bearing seal. The entire inside of the bearing just got new grease. Then push the inner sleeve back through that just greased seal to expose the seal on the other end. Repeat the pumping to fill that bearing with grease. Push the inner sleeve back flush with the relay arm faces. That entire volume around the inner sleeve should be full of grease now.

Hope that makes sense. It may sound complicated, but it isn't. Greasing the two middle bearings takes about 1 minute after you get the dog bones off.

Russ

Hello Russ, do you have any of these already modified for sale? Then I can ship you mine once I have a modified one?

Thank you
David

[KYFeeJeR]

@ Enxss

Snowflake/Russ doesn't visit this sandbox often, click his Forum name and send him a PM. He is a neighbor and riding friend, if you can't reach him post here and I'll send him PM.

Hello sir, I tried to send snowflake a pm about this mod to see if he had one available, but when I went to his profile it didn't allow me to send him a message

Thank you
David

[wheatonFJR]

@ Enxss

Snowflake/Russ doesn't visit this sandbox often, click his Forum name and send him a PM. He is a neighbor and riding friend, if you can't reach him post here and I'll send him PM.

Hello sir, I tried to send snowflake a pm about this mod to see if he had one available, but when I went to his profile it didn't allow me to send him a message

Thank you
David

David, I believe you need 3-5 more posts to be allowed to send a message. Not sure of the exact number. Something about keeping bots from spamming everybody's Inboxes.

[ionbeam]

KYFeeJeR, I forwarded your message to Russ 9/27/20 @ 8:45 am.

[KYFeeJeR]

KYFeeJeR, I forwarded your message to Russ 9/27/20 @ 8:45 am.

Much appreciated 859-209-1022

[RedRiderMN]

@Snowflake,

I am wondering if you still offer this service of adding zerk fittings to the relay arm?

Thanks,
Stan in Minnesota

[Downsouth]

I would like one if snowflake is still doing them ??

[Bust]

Complete directions are in the 1st post guys, it's not that hard to do if you have simple tools an ain't a half wit like Wheaton or Geek

[bungie4]

Complete directions are in the 1st post guys, it's not that hard to do if you have simple tools an ain't a half wit like Wheaton or Geek

Wheatness got promoted from full wit?

[whooshka]

I see Snowflake has not been on since December 2021. Does anyone know if he still offers this service and how to get in touch with him?

[Snowflake]

There are a couple Zerk modified model A relay arms for sale in the other sandbox. FYI

[bill lumberg]

I am still desperately hoping for one for an ES.

[raYzerman]

Hey, just send Russ a message, and if you can find a used one, I'll bet he'll fix one up for ya.

[CollingsBob]

I am still desperately hoping for one for an ES.

I have one for sale…it’s attached to a nicely farkled ‘17 ES..