Grease Nipples - where would be gd + your thoughts

I have 40,000mi bike, some spare time, a lot of love for her and a pot of grease.

I would love to hear where needs greasing! Im aware Mr Suzuki doens't apply much in the factory.

Please give feedback + thoughts + add to the lists to help her on another 40,000mi




ENSURE THESE REMAIN GREASED

• steering headrace bearings
• Swing arm bearings
• suspension linkages
• errrr ... any more?

A GREASE NIPPLE LOCATION WISH LIST

• Swing Arm Bearings
  • suggestions for location?
• Suspension linkages
  • as is such a mission to get to them!
  • (any advice / anyone done this?)
• Rear Suspension Unit
  • Should this be greased - would it help it not die?
  • where would be good?

Some Photos to help discussion / possible explanations

THANK YOU!

Hmm, an intersting idea. Grease nipples would be good, but wouldnt you want them on the swingarm pivot aswell?

Its a pain taking things apart to grease them, but its not a bad thing, it means you can really inspect stuff, not just pump in a load of grease and assume the surfaces are all fine and dandy in there

Originally Posted by Alpinestarhero

Hmm, an intersting idea.... wouldnt you want them on the swingarm pivot aswell?

Cheers for the feedback
Any chance you could clarify exactly where might be a good position to ensure the grease gets to the destination?

[punyXpress]

Most of the bearings have inner & outer sleeves & the method of getting grease in between them may be a problem.
A system where bolts are bored & tapped for nipples could get grease to the inside of the inner ' race ' then a notch ground into the edge surface of the inner woulg allow grease onto the needles, but could this maintain strength in what is often a highly stressed ares?
The drilled bolts would save castings being modified.
You can tell from the above I am no engineer!

Originally Posted by punyXpress

A system where bolts are bored & tapped for nipples could get grease to the inside of the inner ' race ' then a notch ground into the edge surface of the inner woulg allow grease onto the needles, but could this maintain strength in what is often a highly stressed ares?

Great thinking batman! I think we have all had our problems with Mr Suzuki's swiss cheese bolts, not ideal for modification and drilling perfectly in the center + straight is hard.

Grrrrr ... will have to take the SV linkage out + bearings out of linkage arm and see if drilling + taping for greese nipples will get the grease into the bearing needles or if the bearing casing is solid and the nipple would be useless.