With hunting season flooding the woods with high powered rifles and "maybe" competent operators, it is time to do winter suspension and wheel bearing service. I pulled my swing arm and linkage off to inspect and replace anything worn. I am stunned. Over 1200 miles since the last service this time last year on my WR144/167. No wear or pitting period. I had experimented with amsoils extreme pressure off road grease for this application and it worked phenomenally. No intrusion of dirt or water was evident at all! Here is a link to the grease I used: http://www.amsoil.com/storefront/gpor2.aspx If you can watch the video of the testing work. It explains a lot. You can not wash this grease out, period. I expected the bottom shock bearing at least to need replacing. Cleaned it all up and re-greased and it is off for another year. My linkage and swingarm on the other hand are beat to crap by all the rocks in our area.
I use it on all my bikes, four wheelers, trailers, and any thing else that takes grease. I agree the stuff works great!
Thanks Wally.. Been using Bel-Ray for years.. But that Amsoil stuff looks awesome.. Wonder how Bel-Ray would have fared in the "pound-out" test.. :smashpc:
Wallybean, Thanks for the testimonial... Here is a quick link to the grease testing video. I've been using the series 2000 racing grease on my bearings and and am planning on giving the off road grease when my other stuff runs out.
