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Griso/Breva drive shaft joints.

commando tod

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Maybe a dumbass question, :blink: but are the drive shaft joints "sealed for life" or is there some way of greasing them without going thro` the whole process of removing the swing arm assembly. If they are sealed for life, whats the life expectancy of a couple of joints that don`t get greased?
 
You can get to drive shaft by removing the CARC. Good question if they stay lubricated 'forever', I would say it's a looong time. There is no grease fitting on the joints . Here is what I saw when I had my CARC off the other day...

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Well let`s hope it is a very looooooooong time.`cos I don`t think you can pull that shaft out of the carc end, and if you did?, well it`ll be a b**tard to get the front of the shaft onto the splines again. :woohoo: :woohoo:
 
Quite a bit of dismantling to disconnect and remove the shaft at the front end. I've heard of one universal failure only, so there's hope that they'll be long lasting. Greasing the front universal on the V11 series bikes was..........demanding.
 
commando tod wrote:
Well let`s hope it is a very looooooooong time.`cos I don`t think you can pull that shaft out of the carc end, and if you did?, well it`ll be a b**tard to get the front of the shaft onto the splines again. :woohoo: :woohoo:

The front yoke is retained on the gearbox output shaft by an external circlip. To get the shaft off you need to pull the swingarm and then biff the yoke quite hard with a hide mallet to pop it off the clip.

Couplings are 'Sealed for life' but the good news is that because of the length of the shaft they don't have to work as hard as the UJ's on some earlier bikes and should last well, especially as they are out of the muck and grime.

Driveshaft is fairly expensive but it should last a long time.

pete
 
Well, that`s answered that, a very long time, hopefully. Now, if I can only get the vdsts to work with the keyspan usb adapter on my laptop with windows vista, my life would be complete. :)
 
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