How To Lubricate The Rear Drive Splines

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Re: How To Lubricate The Rear Drive Splines

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Ramset, I see no reason not to use the 73% moly, given the history of spline problems Honda has had.
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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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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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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

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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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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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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.......
Wonderful, now I need to tear mine apart again to make sure it doesn't look like that. :drunk
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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

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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.
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.
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Excellent pics, Eddy. I've added them to the original post.
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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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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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No O-rings to check/replace?
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Re: How To Lubricate The Rear Drive Splines

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Dirty Dave wrote:No O-rings to check/replace?
No o'rings if your just removing the final drive as this tutorial explains.
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Re: How To Lubricate The Rear Drive Splines

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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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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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