Steering neck grease zerk

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07-22-2016, 08:20 AM

Uncle G.

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Originally Posted by Bumpandrun

If your greasing neck bearings with zerk fitting. Lol its already to late. The fitting is a joke. Like was said take it apart. Replace bearing and repack by hand. U won't have to worry about it for a very long time. Had a lot of them apart. Bottom bearing and triple tree ozzzing grease. Upper bearing grease almost nothing other than a little mess. Almost all the time upper is pounded out.

Stuff like this is the reason I still ride a Softail. Tearing down the entire front end of an Electra Glide every 10,000 miles or so to put a spoonful of grease in the head bearings is not my idea of a good time. It was bad enough to do this job on my Sportster.

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07-22-2016, 08:49 PM

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Not needed ever 10k. It's needed because most times it's never done at all from the start. Than its run till upper is pounded out....than grease won't fix it. Don't care if it touring ,soft tail or sporty. I have done bikes with 3,000 miles 2 years old. Dry as a bone up top. LoL

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07-23-2016, 01:16 PM

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I hear your advice, but I grease every steering neck when I get the bike, new or used, and every 5k, and have never ever had to replace the bearings, yes it may be over kill, yes I have to wipe up some grease afterwards and after the first ride, but it works for me, and is far cheaper and easier than tearing apart my front end to replace bearings.

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07-24-2016, 06:48 AM

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Put a zerk in the steering neck of my 85 Low Rider in 97 or so. I'd rather wipe some grease off occasionally then tear the front end down, and I like to wrench.

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07-24-2016, 04:14 PM

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good replys on this thread, did not realize you pumped that much into it. it took a tube of red tack #2 to get to the old blue stuff.

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07-24-2016, 05:04 PM

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I've got a weird clunk in my front end on the Road King when I come to a slow complete stop. I greased the front end with the grease fittings but I've been thinking about tearing the front end apart and hand packing the bearings. I guess I need to put this on the to do list.

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07-26-2016, 07:02 PM

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Originally Posted by Gone Blue

Sorry, a little off topic. What kind of grease gun fitting is everyone using to grease the steering neck bearings? I have an articulating fitting and still cant get in there to grease it. Thanks, G.B.

Lincoln makes a good quality lever type gun. Get a 24" to 36" flexible hose on it.
For grease, I use RED-i Super Premium NLGI Gr #2.

It "stays in place."

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