Greasin the neck on a Bagger
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From: Livingston, Texas
Greasin the neck on a Bagger
Don't know if anybody is interested in this but here goes.
Got over 19,000 on my FLHT and its a year old this month.
Went to put a set of plugs in my bike and couldn't find any feeler guages. Was gonna grease the neck and couldn't git the grease gun on the fittin. So I took it out to take with me.
So I busted out to NAPA 10 miles away. Went in and got a set of feeler guages.
Showed the man the fittin I took out of the neck and said I want a 90* fittin.
He gave me one. so I come home to the pad to put it in.
After turnin it a couple times it hit the neck and I couldn't git it to go in. So I picked up my trusty bifocals and got to lookin at the fittin. It has a hex head on the end to screw it in and it had a hex fittin on the 90* angle also.
So I got a 1/4 drive metric socket and went to the vice and put the big end in and clamped it in the vice and put the socket on the fittin end and unscrewed the 90* out.
Then I went to the neck on the bike and screwed the end into the neck,
I got a metric socket to go on the small end and got a nut driver that would fit it and put some blue locktight on it and screwed the nipple intothe fittin and got my grease gun and greased the neck with ease.
So if anybody is trying to grease the neck on a bagger and struggling this might help you out of a bind
Got over 19,000 on my FLHT and its a year old this month.
Went to put a set of plugs in my bike and couldn't find any feeler guages. Was gonna grease the neck and couldn't git the grease gun on the fittin. So I took it out to take with me.
So I busted out to NAPA 10 miles away. Went in and got a set of feeler guages.
Showed the man the fittin I took out of the neck and said I want a 90* fittin.
He gave me one. so I come home to the pad to put it in.
After turnin it a couple times it hit the neck and I couldn't git it to go in. So I picked up my trusty bifocals and got to lookin at the fittin. It has a hex head on the end to screw it in and it had a hex fittin on the 90* angle also.
So I got a 1/4 drive metric socket and went to the vice and put the big end in and clamped it in the vice and put the socket on the fittin end and unscrewed the 90* out.
Then I went to the neck on the bike and screwed the end into the neck,
I got a metric socket to go on the small end and got a nut driver that would fit it and put some blue locktight on it and screwed the nipple intothe fittin and got my grease gun and greased the neck with ease.
So if anybody is trying to grease the neck on a bagger and struggling this might help you out of a bind
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From: King George, VA
If you used regular grease, you're going to find it oozing out over the next decade adn getting all over everything from the steering head to your tail light.
If you use the high temperature grease, it will stay in the steering head.
If you use the high temperature grease, it will stay in the steering head.
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Joined: Aug 2008
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From: south
I put in a 45degree.
Then took the straight one I remove from the neck and put it in the cross shaft of the shifter linkage.
Got the idea from one of Dawg's post.
Then took the straight one I remove from the neck and put it in the cross shaft of the shifter linkage.
Got the idea from one of Dawg's post.
Last edited by harley-jones; Oct 16, 2008 at 04:25 PM.
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