Ernest T

Thanks to someone on this forum, I read a post about the dealer not greasing the intermediate housing at their 10 hour service. I bought a used FX HO with 19 hours that had the 10 hour service documented having been done at the local dealership. Since then I've put another 22 hours on it (41 hours total). Having dealt with this dealership to have the extended warranty transfered to my name, I wasn't real impressed with their technicians. So, I'd pretty much already decided to do my own maintence and as much service/repair work as possible myself. Anyhow, after reading the post about the intermediate housing not being greased, I decided to amuse myself by checking the grease situation on my ride. Sure enough, the grease nipple was clean as a whistle, so I pulled off the grease hose and it too was perfectly clean (no grease). I even ran a wire down the hose to the intermediate housing to see if I could fine any grease, and it came back dry. I greased it myself (33 pumps, since my gun puts out about a gram per pump), but now I'm wondering whether there may have been any damage to the bearings from lack of grease? My guess is that there are a bunch of skis out there that have never had the intermediate housing greased, so I'm not too worried. Makes you wonder just what some of these dealerships do for the 200+ they charge for service?

Water Worx

Greasing the intermed housing DOES NOT put any grease in the bearing or the driveshaft splines. The bearing is a sealed bearing so I doubt any damage was done.

Greasing only puts grease in front of the bearing & behind the rear seal to keep water away from the bearing,pumping 33 times you may have blown out the rear seal........

Ernest T

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OOPS!. My service manual says to put in 33-35 cm3 or 1.12-1.18 oz of grease. Before I greased the housing, I pumped out 10 pumps with my grease gun and it weighed 10 grams exactly on my scale. 33 pumps should be 33 grams or 1.16 oz. Where did I go wrong??? I put the last 10 pumps in slowly as mentioned elsewhere in this forum. Is there any simple way to check the rear seal???

Thanks!

Water Worx

Not without tearing it all apart. Just go with it & it should be fine.

Tip on grease...Use Mobil 1 syn grease available at Autozone. Best waterproof grease out there.

Just shoot a couple pumps every 20 hours or so in saltwater & 40/50 hours in freshwater

Your last name isint BASS is it ???

Ernest T

Your last name isint BASS is it ???

Seen any good chunking rocks?

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Water Worx

Ernest T Bass is da chit.

volltrex

Spot on.......you did not go wrong. if there was no grease in the hose leading down to the housing, then the full amount needs to go in......no grease is put in at the factory.
33-34 grams is what is specified in the manual......as long as you go slowly (as you say you did) then any access grease flows past the seals (the seal lips face outwards).

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2007 FXHO 160 Cruiser

Ernest T

"Spot on.......you did not go wrong."

Thanks for the reassurance. I took it out today for the last ride of the season, and it ran great.

greggk

OK, so let me get this strait... IF i pump lets say 2 tubes of grease in the housing nipple SLOWLY then all I'm doing is wasting grease??? The "access grease will flow past the seal" is that correct? Will I be able to see where the access grease is at some point?

I don't know if there is much grease in my tube leading to the housing so i have been putting a few pumps in every year but I don't think there was there correct service done either at 10 hrs.

I don't know the anatomy of the Int. Housing... when the FX140 is bone dry inside the haul and I ride it (very tamely) for a little while there is maybe a cup of water or so in the bottom of the haul. Could this have anything to do with the seal that I may have blown out or is this normal?

Again, should I just slowly fill the tube up til it comes out somewhere?

THANKS

Hawkdriver

I agree, you put the proper amount in. Most typical grease guns pump 1oz per squeeze or so.

I looked at a 06 FX HO today with 15 hours on it. The guy that was selling it said it just came from it's 10 hour service and getting de-winterized. Other than the oil changed, the plugs were not changed, the intermediate bearing hasn't been touched from the factory as well as every other point that requires some sort of lubrication.

Dealers are hit or miss, but 200 for JUST an oil change is pathetic. They will be the same people that deny warranty when you ski needs something becuase the service wasn't completed properly.