HOW TO // Take Apart & Grease Your Dirt Bike Bearings & Linkage - Lubricate your Motorcycle Chassis 

As a 45 year old who stopped riding at 17 decided to scoop up a modern 2 smoker from Beta love your vids and passion. Learning how to work on them really adds a level of appreciation and pride I never realized... Thanks for the spark man

📌GUYS- I totally skipped the wheel bearings. To be honest, I usually only do these once when the bike is new. typically I won't have the bike around long enough to replace them after that but I'll try and explain the procedure.. To grease your bike's wheel bearings: -remove spacers from hubs -remove dust seals from hubs, they are the black seal just in front of the bearing. KTM's will have a brass colored metal dust seal while Japanese bikes will commonly have a standard rubber-coated seal. Use a larger, more broad style flathead screwdriver, and place it under the back side of the seal, working it out slowly with gentle pressure against the hub. Like a pry bar so to speak -now you can remove the bearings actual dust seal. Use the little pic tool you see me using in the video, or something just like it, to slide underneath the back side of the seal and slowly work your way around the seal on a circle until it pops out -now you can pack your wheel bearings with grease! -front wheels will have a bearing on either side, so simply repeat the process -most rear wheels will have three bearings. two of them will be on the drive side, or the sprocket side. You would have to remove the outer bearing (with a blind bearing puller) if you wanted to grease the inner bearing. I never do it . I am too lazy and wheel bearings are super cheap to purchase -OEM KTM rear wheels only have two bearings, one on each side. -Just push as much grease as you can into the wheel bearings as you can, replace the dust seal making sure to press firmly down on it, and work your finger in a circle until you know it is again held captive in the bearing -reinstall your dust seals, your spacers, and finally your wheels back onto the motorcycle Good luck! And as always, if you get stuck, just drop a comment 😎 -Charles // mXrevival

This is the homie. Thank you for showing multiple areas to grease for us who don’t got personal mechanics 🤙

By FAR the best and most informative RU-vid video on dirt bike maintenance. Can't speak highly enough!

Such a well thought out video! You’re the man Charles! 🤘🏼🤘🏼

Great video, great music! Comprehensive & informative. I appreciate your time & effort Charles. 🏁

This was exactly what I needed. Thank you for the tips!

Keep the content coming! Your vids are top notch. Production value is on point and content is great. Your channel can't help but grow.

Great tips, Charles! Your videos are super informative! 👍👍👍

great and helpful video!

Dude you rock bro! I have the same stand! Definitely starting from the back thanks bro! Love and enjoy all your content!

Great, easy to follow video. I took away a ton of tips.

I stumbled on your channel with the ssr hype :) but I really appreciate your passion for motorcycle maintenance, restoration and education. As someone with an oldy but a goody bike and average motorcycle tech skills I'm finding these videos helpful!

Awesome video, awesome bike, awesome presence. And just in case I didn't mention it, everything was awesome.😊

Well done, easy to understand 😁

That concept with the front wheel is pretty cool, thanks for the great tips and very informative vids.

Thanks man, this has given me the confidence I needed to do this task. Well explained cheers.

Slick work bud. Shot 👊🏼

Thanks Charles for making a quality thorough video with these maintenance techniques. Going to be doing this tomorrow for the first time on my new dirt bike, wish me luck, LOL.

I've been waiting for another one of these in depth videos of yours Charlie, loved this one, I'm gonna do this to my XR before it's too late haha

Awesome video thank you

A ton of good information here. The best I've seen on how to do it and save yourself some headaches!

Amazing video first time for me and i had no problem taking it apart and greasing everything thanks to you.

Thank you so much for your videos and tips and tricks. Really helped me out a lot!

Perfect & simply done , good mecanic and helpfull movie , many thx eddy

Your video really helped me do this job for the first time ever. Learned a lot from it!

Wow! Great video! I did not even realize I was watching for 30 mins! Thank you for sharing your knowledge!

Thanks dude, you’re a wealth of knowledge

Nice garage ❤

First rate video Charles! (as always) 👏💪

Your a gr8 teacher! I learned alot!

Awesome video 👍

Hi Charles, Another Great quality video....you have such good clarity, lighting and editing. How is that SSR 300 working out for you? Keep the videos coming .

Excellent video

Bad ass channel. Do you have a video regarding how you keep parts organized during tear downs? For instance If you were doing a complete motor rebuild, how you would organize each bolt.

Awesome video thanks

Thank's, really good vidéo. I'm from Marseille ( France) 👍✌

superb as all your videos :-)

Hey thank you for the tips !! I use so to the same kid of thing but not as good as you showed us !! I’ve been off a bike for 25 years and my brother is back and I’m gonna be his help on bikes thanks again you da man !!!!

awesome info thanks heaps

I don’t grease my stuff as much as I should. I’m not alone there. But I did realize a tooth brush is an awesome grease applicator. After the mud at GlenHelen and pressure washer. I guess I have work to do. Thanks for the content brother🤘🏻🇺🇸

Awesome job! I like to pop out those seals and take out all the needle bearings. Clean everything with brakleen and then reassemble with fresh belray...but im weird like that. The oem rmz manual is pretty detailed in that it tells you the # of needle bearings in each incase you lose some you know how many you are supposed to have.

If you’d like a content suggestion, I’d like to see a tool related video. Maybe show a shop set of tools, an abbreviated mobile tool set for the track and a trail riding kit in a fanny pack/backpack or fender bag. I think that’s be a cool video you can do during this lame quarantine

excellent

Nice job

As usual, awesome video Charles. I like to take a pick and remove all the needles and wipe everything dry and clean, when I put the needles back in I grease the heck out of the races and then use the grease on my finger to pick up the bearings about 1 to 3 at a time. I then slide my finger out and the grease holds them in place. I have always been too afraid to use brake cleaner to clean around the seals, have you had any issues with the seals hardening? I picked up a couple new tricks that I like. 1 is protecting your bike from its protection, I'm now thinking about cutting a bicycle tube to the shape I'd like and then using adhesive spray on the back of my frame guards and skid plate. The other is the spinning the tire and grabbing the front brake. I always thought it was a PIA to take my bike off the stand and pump the forks a few times before tightening the pinch bolts. Thanks for the great tips. Time for the bike washing video lol.

Mr. Charles, First time doing Swing arm prep to a new bike, glad to have a friendly face to guide me through said process. Ur east coast Fanboy, @elite.steeze 💕

Love your video. What torque wrench do you recommend? So many brands I don’t know what’s good. Thanks

I like to take out the needle bearings and clean them all and the bearing housing as well to get all the dirt out. work on one side at a time and be careful not to loose one then lay a bed of grease in side bare bearing housing and the needle bearings stick well to them, then pack them after needles reinstalled. its like new bearings at that point. Just what I do, like you videos man. good content and learning tips you have in your videos

I’ll just send you my bike 😆

👊🏼I'm due for a grease job

Thanks for this video Charles i needed this to relax to. Im outside burning yard waste after a frustrating day of fixing my Harley FXR got it all buttoned up and no power lol..had to hang up my wrenches for day at that point. P.s. I'm looking for a suspension guy who does can repair my projects without paying an arm and a leg if you know of any much appreciated brother. Hope all is well

Fantasitc video. What brand stand is that? I know Tusk makes one similar but I don't recall the bike being held down by springs.

Ever had any issues packing wheel bearings full on a dirtbike? They get pretty stiff when you fill them.

i just watched the new video and now this one.. im not stoked i have to grease my 2022 yz.. it has 1 hour on it and it's hot AF in arizona right now so i guess next month its tear down time.. why dont they grease the shit out of these things most people can't or wont even think about this.. ive built two bikes but thought surely the new one should be good lol cant wait to see what it looks like

So, I looked at this video and thought, well, can't learn much here - wrong! I got all kinds of helpful tips. Thanks man. What is the size of the pipe you use, I really need some extra leverage.

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Great video man!!! RU-vid needs to move you up in the logarithms

sir . Does bearing linkage between kxf 250 and rmz same ? 2015

I can't for the life of me find the triple clamps torque specs in my owners manual. Any clue on where that may be? 2021 RMZ 250

On my 21 it looks like there's grease fittings on my linkage. Nothing in the manual about it so I just do it the old fashioned way. I wonder how it'd work? It can't possibly get into the actual bearings can it?

How log do you reckon this job would take? Have to tackle to job on my boys bike, just wondering how long it will take me😂 to

Love it, but it's probably a 2 day job for me lol. It's the organization of all the parts that kills me in my limited garage space...

Do you ever do racing 4wheelers?

Please show me in the service manual where grease is applied to the axles. Did the Engineers at Suzuki, Honda and Ktm miss something.

Can you take out the pivot bolt without removing the shock?

Yo whats dimensions on that cheater bar you got, lookin to make me One

Hahahaha I just greased my linkage last night and I took all the needles out 😅

Belray is garbageee. go for an EP rated Bearing grease and an aqua/marine grease such as Aqua Sheild.

Thanks for the heads-up about the roller pins. I had assumed they were captive. If they are/were loose, it would be a disaster for me.