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Snowflake wrote: ↑Tue Mar 26, 2019 1:28 pm 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

ionbeam wrote: ↑Thu Jul 02, 2020 12:47 pm @ 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.

KYFeeJeR wrote: ↑Sat Sep 26, 2020 8:12 pm

ionbeam wrote: ↑Thu Jul 02, 2020 12:47 pm @ 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

ionbeam wrote: ↑Sun Sep 27, 2020 8:43 am KYFeeJeR, I forwarded your message to Russ 9/27/20 @ 8:45 am.

Bust wrote: ↑Sat Feb 05, 2022 11:23 am 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

bill lumberg wrote: ↑Thu Jan 18, 2024 5:58 pm I am still desperately hoping for one for an ES.