Shaft drive tips

 Honda has had problems with wear on drive splines since the early Wings, and
still does on the ST, if you do not follow the directions and lube them with
a paste grease containing at least 40% Moly (molybdenum disulfide). Using
Honda's own part number to confuse them, few have any luck buying a tube of
Honda's 60% moly paste at the dealer, and most dealer techs think you are
nuts asking what they use. My local dealer tried to sell me BelRay
waterproof bearing grease. Thats why I work on my own machines.
Anyway, all dry spline drive assemblies should be greased with moly, and
here's a source of 65% moly, easy to get.
http://store.summitracing.com/partdetail.asp?part=MOR-35000
It still won't make them wheelie.
--
Stupendous Man,
Defender of Freedom, Advocate of Liberty

 
Interesting you should mention that.  The access port covers (for valve
adjustment) are supposed to get a little moly grease on the threads.  All I
could find was BelRay assembly lube (essentially same product you pointed
to, different packaging).

Anyway, the stuff was so darned effective that one of the access port covers
kept vibrating loose.  So I wiped much of the grease off (just leaving some
residue in the threads), retorqued it, and it seems to be staying put now.

But yeah, hard to fine what is spec'd oftentimes.

Datesfat

 

I beg to differ. I have , in fact, had the front wheel in the air on my '06.
Friend has an '05 FJR and he said I couldn't do it with my big-assed beast.

Wrong. Not something I plan on doing again as that's a hell of a lot of
weight to be crashing back down on those bearings but the thing can do it if
pushed hard enough.

 Jeff Mayner wrote:

You must have gotten a bike built for south of the equator, then.
(Assuming you live in the northern hemisphere)  All shaft drive bikes
are supposed to have the rear drive unit that corresponds to the
hemisphere in which the bike is to be operated in order to counter the
coriolis effect.

Does your shaftie counter-steer, as well?

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My shafty is as straight as an arrow.   ;-)

I counter-steer, it just follows along.