Grease U Joints???

[QuapaBrave]

Have an '06 GL1800 Champion Trike. For you Champion riders, how often do you grease your U Joints??

 

[Shimpy]

Have an '06 GL1800 Champion Trike. For you Champion riders, how often do you grease your U Joints??

I do mine every 3,000 miles. I think Champion says 3,000 to 5,000 but it's not a big deal so I'd rather do it too often.

 

[RoscoeD]

Sure wish my 1500 had greaseable ujoints

 

[1800 06 Champion Trike]

Once a year

 

[Gold Rush]

Sure wish my 1500 had greaseable ujoints

Roscoe this might help you out. I gathered this information a couple years ago but I expect it is still valid. Hope it works for you...... It's information from a couple different sources I think but it sounds doable.

Jerry


Having just gone through this scenario, I thought I would pass on what I found out.
The yoke/u-joint assembly for all of the 1500's and 1997-2002 Valks are the same part number. Problem is that Honda has not manufactured them for over two years. When a dealer orders them, they are back ordered and then weekly the back-order is updated to the next week.

Honda lost it's vendor that makes them and has tried unsuccessfully to get another vendor under contract.
So what are the 1500, Valk, and trike owners to do?

The stock yoke assembly has a "staked" u-joint meaning there are no c clips or snap rings holding it together. It's a press fit and then staked.

Take your yoke assembly to a drive line service shop and ask for a Spicer 430-9A U-joint and have them machine the yoke to accept the U-joint and use c clips to hold it in. Now you have a replaceable u-joint instead of a waiting for a back ordered assembly

I found specs for the Spicer 430-9A and some more info at Rockford Drive Line (on line). That particular joint has a bearing cap OD of 0.791" and what they call "inside lockup" which is the dimension required between the two yoke ears inside (or what it measures outside to outside of the retainer clip) is 1.315".

 

[goldwing2000]

Grease the driveshaft with every oil change, which is around very 3,000 to 4,000 miles. Easy enough to do, and very cheap insurance.

Ride safe,

 

[scribe5]

Grease the driveshaft with every oil change, which is around very 3,000 to 4,000 miles. Easy enough to do, and very cheap insurance.

Ride safe,

I agree