Rebuild Front Wheel Bearings

I'm very proud of this next maintenance items, not because it was hard to do, but it is the first procedure where I actually made my own tool to perform the work. After reading the posts online, the front wheel bearing cap on my R100S has four small holes in the cap that requires a tool to be inserted into to it to unscrew the polished cap. The posts warn about not using a screw drive or nail to perform this task of screwing the cap, the cap is fairly large so it needs to be done right.

Following the Airhead canyons of do it cheap, I cut a 1x1 strip of scrap wood about two feet long, enough to get some leverage., I then measure the holes on the cap and drilled some small holes in the center of the wood that aligned with the cap. I took some small sheet metal bolts and inserted them into two of the holes so they were protruding out from the wood, but enough grab in the wood not to move.

I inserted the tool into the cap, and leftty loosey waa laa, she unscrewed with a bit of torque. I would love to work on machines all day if it paid what the IT industry would.

I cleaned up the bearings, the grease had gone pretty brown, cleaned the bearings out with Gunk cleaner, than simple green, a good rinse, and blew them out with air. I proceeded to lube with Moly past, pout all the spacers back together, and man did the front wheel glide. After I put them wheel back on I could not believe the free play in the wheel. I have left the brake calipers loose since the rebuild until this part was completed.

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