How To Lubricate The Rear Drive Splines
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Re: How To Lubricate The Rear Drive Splines
Ramset, I see no reason not to use the 73% moly, given the history of spline problems Honda has had.
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Re: How To Lubricate The Rear Drive Splines
Whomever is able, Please be so kind as to update the pictures on this post. I am a total newbie looking for posts like this and would love to have picture examples to go by. Thanks.
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Re: How To Lubricate The Rear Drive Splines
+1JonnyC4 wrote:Whomever is able, Please be so kind as to update the pictures on this post. I am a total newbie looking for posts like this and would love to have picture examples to go by. Thanks.
It's disappointing when someone expends their time and effort to put up an excellent tutorial, only to find later later that the pictures have been removed (for whatever reason). I'm sure I'm not the only one who'd like to see a process implemented that would encourage those who post valuable reference material to upload them as a permanent file rather than a link.
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Re: How To Lubricate The Rear Drive Splines
I have a large tub of proper high moly black grease that I use on splines.
Even more important with a rig as they are under much more stress. The spline shell on my rig was totally worn out when I changed it.......
Even more important with a rig as they are under much more stress. The spline shell on my rig was totally worn out when I changed it.......
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so....probably best use Tipp-Ex in future?"
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Re: How To Lubricate The Rear Drive Splines
Nice, thanks. It is good to see some comparisons when I degrease things and I kind of know what they should look or not look like.
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Re: How To Lubricate The Rear Drive Splines
Wonderful, now I need to tear mine apart again to make sure it doesn't look like that.Hal wrote:I have a large tub of proper high moly black grease that I use on splines.
Even more important with a rig as they are under much more stress. The spline shell on my rig was totally worn out when I changed it.......
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Re: How To Lubricate The Rear Drive Splines
Some pics for reference have been added to the original tutorial, Thanks Roady!
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Re: How To Lubricate The Rear Drive Splines
I'm kinda remembering that when NGW changed software around 2 1/2 years ago there were pictures lost to the bit bucket and maybe that's where tutorial pics went also.JonnyC4 wrote:Whomever is able, Please be so kind as to update the pictures on this post. I am a total newbie looking for posts like this and would love to have picture examples to go by. Thanks.
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Re: How To Lubricate The Rear Drive Splines
Excellent pics, Eddy. I've added them to the original post.
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Re: How To Lubricate The Rear Drive Splines
This is a superb technical section, isn't it? The GoldWing final drive is almost identical to that found on the ST1100 Pan European, and owned one for twelve years until last year. Every Pan owner I knew lubricated the rear splines with Honda Moly 60 Paste and were apparently satisfied with the results. I always used to add a smear of paste to the five pins of the spider before sliding them back into the rubber blocks. I see no necessity in 'indexing' the pins ie replacing them in the same holes, as they are accurately machined by Mr Honda's work force and are therefore equidistant. I had a look this week at the final drive of my newly bought GL1000 and found some of the pins coated in rust. Not now.
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Re: How To Lubricate The Rear Drive Splines
Valuable info! I'll do that to my 76 when I put new tires on and also my 77. Not because it needs a new tire, but I've never had a look-see at the splines yet!
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Re: How To Lubricate The Rear Drive Splines
No O-rings to check/replace?
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Re: How To Lubricate The Rear Drive Splines
No o'rings if your just removing the final drive as this tutorial explains.Dirty Dave wrote:No O-rings to check/replace?
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Re: How To Lubricate The Rear Drive Splines
I asked because I suddenly have moly grease on my wheel rim after riding. My Valkyrie has 3 O-rings in the final drive. Thanks for the info.
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Re: How To Lubricate The Rear Drive Splines
I owned my Honda ST1100 Pan European for some twelve years and was more than happy with the recommended Honda Moly 60 paste. The first tube, the grease was as thick as Edam cheese and difficult to spread, the second tube the grease was fractionally thinner. I saw no reason to try anything else. My two BMWs also use the same Honda 60 too. I've just had a look on Google and it seems Honda have replaced it with M-77 but I have no experience with that.
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