I was lubing my swing arm and found that the LH bushing was installed from the outside of the swing arm! I was having trouble getting it back together. I had cleaned up the parts and when I got back to finish I forgot how the bushings went in Well I could see that the LH had left a mark on the swing arm so I tried to install them from the outside and the swing arm would not slide in After I look in the maintaince manual I see that they are installed from the inside out. So from looking closely I see that my bike came with The RH installed correctly and the LH incorrectly! Has anyone else seen this also my master-link did not have any o-rings on the inside of the link After fitting the bushings in correctly it fit right together the black ring area is the mark that was on my swingarm from the bushing. PS how do you get bold letters in the title http://i470.photobucket.com/albums/rr61/lesrsz28/DSC02218.jpg
The O-Rings on the master-link disappear really easily and they also make it hard to close the ML enough to get the clip back on. By the way, I did the exact same thing with bushings...kinda counter intuitive.
So do you put o-rings on the inside plate or just the clip side? also did your bike come with the LH bushing installed from the outside of the swing-arm?
The O-rings are there to keep the grease in. Amusing of coarse you did grease the ML before assembly. If you only put "O-rings" on one side....how would the grease stay in the ML.... Hope that clears things up for you...
Its a new bike only 4 rides I just thought I would lube up everything since I have sent my suspension of to Les at LTR Thanks for the pic I got 2 more o-rings from my son and installed them Thanks