Steering head grease - those who do their own servicing

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04-20-2010 | 12:00 AM

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Originally Posted by emwolb

i would suggest a high temp grease, because in the heat of summer, regular grease would become almost a liquid. i know it does even in my grease gun, and if i don't keep one of my grease guns with the nozzle pointed down, i have to purge air out of the system before it will start pumping again. i've heard of guys putting almost a whole tube of grease in the neck. wow. a poor design where the grease zert is located because the bottom bearing is the only one which will get greased if gravity still works the way it used to.

Gravity still works but when it comes to something as thick as grease it will take the path of least resistance, so it will fill the neck before it starts to just run out the bottom and then has to be forced through the bearing creating pressure both top and bottom.

Remember the good ol' days when you had to pump a star hub full to grease the wheel bearings? Oh, whats a star hub? Another one of Harleys "poor designs", but eventually we got Timkin wheel bearings and they took the ZERK fitting off the hub, maybe one day they will remove the fitting from the rest of the line like the Dyna's.

BTW when a neck is apart it gets the BEARINGS, not the whole neck, packed with the blue HD wheel bearing it doesnt melt when it gets to be 80* out.

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