Check your front wheel bearings for grease marks?
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Check your front wheel bearings for grease marks?
I thought I had heard some noise coming out of my front end or engine and of course when I pulled over I heard nothing and just rolling at slow speed I heard nothing.
Today though I could hear clearly that something was wrong and knew it was front end noise. I pulled over twice on the way home going slowly trying to figure it out. Then I saw the rubber was starting to pull off the bearing and I pulled it and could plainly see what was going on.
It ended there and my local dealer picked me and the bike up within a half hour. BTW the bike rolled fine even the dealership guys couldn't believe that it rolled fine. It was making some nasty noise though on my final stop.
Was scheduled to be brought in Wed for both tires to be changed, bike has almost 11k miles. Here are the pictures I took from the side of the road.
BTW I also noticed that when the bike got wet I thought that I saw grease or dirt that lookied like it was getting onto the rotor, I assume thats exactly what it was now the bearing was not sealed and the grease was escaping out evently causing failure.
Today though I could hear clearly that something was wrong and knew it was front end noise. I pulled over twice on the way home going slowly trying to figure it out. Then I saw the rubber was starting to pull off the bearing and I pulled it and could plainly see what was going on.
It ended there and my local dealer picked me and the bike up within a half hour. BTW the bike rolled fine even the dealership guys couldn't believe that it rolled fine. It was making some nasty noise though on my final stop.
Was scheduled to be brought in Wed for both tires to be changed, bike has almost 11k miles. Here are the pictures I took from the side of the road.
BTW I also noticed that when the bike got wet I thought that I saw grease or dirt that lookied like it was getting onto the rotor, I assume thats exactly what it was now the bearing was not sealed and the grease was escaping out evently causing failure.
Last edited by EricD10563; 08-24-2009 at 11:10 PM.
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I had noticed a few times after I washed my bike or heavy rain that it looked like grease was spinning out of the bearing and I should have taken notice then instead of just cleaning it, sort of like those old paint games that spun on a platter and you put a drop of paint and it would make a pattern. Hind sight is 20-20 I'm pretty sure that all the grease was coming out of the bearing. It could have been much worse and I can't complain dealer picked me up right away with a trailer.
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Faulty bearing does not seem to be an issue since I don't see much talk about it. Just want people to check because it could have been an issue.
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