now one thing that'll really piss a guy off when it comes to dirt bikes is
seized up bearings and bolts and obviously the best way to prevent that
is by keeping your stuff greased and one product I've come across that really
makes that job easy is a greasable bolt so what we have here is a Bewlbar from
steelhorse innovations it's a greasable swingarm bolt so
replaces the actual swingarm bolt itself as well as the spacers that go or the
sleeves that go in the swing arm so a really cool design so I'm excited to
open this thing up and see what it's all about so once I get this thing installed
and test it out I'll just be giving away one of these bolts that up to one of you
guys so make sure you stick around for that all right so it looks like we've
got the bolt itself the spacers nut and an attachment that goes on your grease
gun so basically how these work is you have a grease fitting on both ends it
looks like and then use this in conjunction with your grease gun to
shoot grease through the bolt and then it comes out these holes here really
curious how the grease is gonna make its way through these sleeves and to the
bearings alright in order to install this bolt we'll have to pull apart the
back of the bike and that would include the back wheel and the swing arm
so we're replacing the actual spoon our bolt this is the OEM one as well as the
spacers that go in the pivot so these two bushings right here replace baby om
bushings up here at the pivot and believe it or not these pivot bearings
are the only bearings I didn't replace on this bike so we will be replacing
them in this video as well you see the old bushing has some rust and corrosion
here so you can only imagine what the actual bearing itself looks like now the
new steel horse bushings are the same width as the OEM ones they just have the
greasing holes and one thing I noticed inside zoom in here there's actually a
little cavity or cutout inside that bushing or the grease that flow through
so pretty cool design there so I'm gonna mock this set up on the bike without the
sewer arm and really get an idea how it works this should be interesting
all right so I've got the bolt and the bushings mocked up in the bike I'm just
gonna give it a couple pumps and see if any grease comes out there we go I see
some
that works pretty slick if you ask me as you can see after just a couple pumps
we've got grease coming out of those holes on either side pretty pumped on
how the system works you definitely know those bearings gonna be well greased up
so that bolt works exactly as it should it delivers grease to the swing arm
pivot bearings but one thing I noticed is it doesn't grease the center of the
cases here and the reason I bring that up is I've seen a lot of super molt
stuck or seized in the cases they're from rust now to be completely fair I
don't know if it's possible to add a center greasing hole to keep Greece in
the center of the cases I'm guessing that would weaken the bolt quite a bit
so now it's time to get the swing arm all set up
I'm just need to pop these bushings into place now for you guys with a good eye
you'll notice this swing arm is different than the one we just pulled
off the bike so this is the original oh three swing arm now I'm just swapping it
out for one from a 2009 CRF 250r z-- a few different reasons why I'm swapping
the swing arms the first being this one is lighter than the o'the reefs worm by
three-quarters of a pound so that's pretty cool apparently this is stronger
as well and I can also run the newer style chain guide with these mounts here
so I picked up the swing arm on ebay for pretty cheap went through cleaned it up
shined it up took all the casting marks out with the prime of X cleaning pads
went ahead and popped in some fresh bearings as well so this thing is ready
to go now the last thing to do is pop these bushings into place
and you're gonna want to look at the end of each bushing for a little punch mark
and if you see a punch mark that end of the bushing is going to go toward the
frame side of the swing arm
now before your swing arm goes back in you're gonna want to put anti-seize
lubricant or grease inside of the cases to prevent that bolt from getting stuck
I've seen way too many bolts seized to the point where I have to cut them out
with a sawzall or a cut-off wheel right here just really crappy situation so you
want to avoid that
you have to tap on the bolts at all make sure you use a socket that fits over the
grease fitting that way you don't damage it and for the nut you can just torque
that to the factory spec on this particular bike that is 65 foot-pounds
now we can go ahead and get this linkage back on as well open one more thing I
noticed I'm gonna have to find a different bolt for this new swing arm
because obviously that ain't gonna work
let's go ahead and take a peek at how this new style guide will look on here
don't quite how to be slider for it yet but yeah that looks a lot better really
digging the black queue now it's the bike together for the most part the last
thing to do is shoot some grease into that smear bolt and you're all set
honestly pretty straightforward so once you see a little bit of grease purge out
the end of the bolt that means the bearing is completely full now I would
recommend greasing both sides of the bolt after every long ride every time
you wash the bike or if the bike has been sitting for a while and keep in
mind when you do grease that bolt make sure there's no dirt or debris around
that fitting or else it would just be pushing all that crap right into the
bearings alright so what are my thoughts on the steel horse view of our kit so
it's really well designed does exactly what it was designed to do greases those
swing arm bearings the fit finishes great installation isn't too bad you do
have to take a couple things apart which isn't a huge deal
it's made of quality materials isn't gonna break on you or anything and in my
opinion it's gonna save you a lot of time and hassle down the road in keeping
those bearings greased you know the bearings aren't gonna fall apart the
bolts not gonna get stuck in there and you don't have to take your bike half
way apart just to grease those swing our bearings so definitely got a thumbs up
in my book and as promised we're going to be doing a giveaway for one of these
kits to one of you guys so the only requirement is that you need to have one
of the bikes that steel horse makes this kit for so you're gonna head over to
steal horses website while we get down below you're gonna check through their
inventory see if they have something that would fit your bike and if they do
you're gonna go down below in the description again hit the giveaway link
that'll take you over to the page where you enter your name your email address
so I can contact you if you're the winner and your make and model of your
bike and that's about it alright guys sweat my ass off out here time to go
inside but I will see you guys next time thanks for watching
you