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Question Need to know how to gain access to the steering head bearing on my 2020 Lowrider S

I have a lot of wobble going around 50-70 mph and I need to mess with the bearing just don't know how to get in there to do so. I want to try doing it my self before I take it to the dealership.
 
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You're looking for #1 & #2. This is from the service manual & doesn't quite look like ours, but you get the idea.


 
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Don’t forget to loosen the lower (or upper) pinch bolts before attempting to adjust the head bearings.
 
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It's possible that the steering stem will have to be loosened slightly when intuition tells you to tighten it. When they bearings have too much pre-load they tend to 'stick' ever so slightly and the bike seems to wander as you make tiny corrections. In other words, the bike won't self-center the way it should.
If you're really going to get into this, you might want to invest in a shop manual. It's great to see another guy jumping in to the world of DIY!
 
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Check your tires, and wheel bearings. Those are the most common contributors to wobble.
 
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So I take it there is no zerk fitting to grease the bearings in the tripple tree?
 
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So I take it there is no zerk fitting to grease the bearings in the tripple tree?
Even if there was, that would only dump grease into the neck (completely useless). It wouldn't grease the bearing.
 
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Originally Posted by twincam10353
Even if there was, that would only dump grease into the neck (completely useless). It wouldn't grease the bearing.
Previous generation softails had a zerk fitting there and you would pump grease in it enough that grease would flow out of the upper and lower bearings.
 
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Originally Posted by RocketyMan
Previous generation softails had a zerk fitting there and you would pump grease in it enough that grease would flow out of the upper and lower bearings.
One of the reasons I dislike the new Softails. A job which used to take me five minutes (including wiping up the excess grease) now takes more than a day to accomplish (assuming it will ever be done at all).

I suspect I’ll just run the head bearings to failure since the labor to grease them is the same as the labor to replace them.

Just one more example of the disposable society we’ve created.
 
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Originally Posted by FattyMcJ
You're looking for #1 & #2. This is from the service manual & doesn't quite look like ours, but you get the idea.

so I tried this but there is nothing to adjust.

do I have to remove my hole front end in this case ?
 


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