Suspension
Swingarm Bearing Installation
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- Replace the needle bearings, ball bearing, grease seals and circlip with new ones.
- Install the needle bearings, ball bearing, grease seals and circlip as shown in the figure.
Insert the needle bearing driver [A] into the needle bearing [B] and press the needle bearing into the housing until the driver contacts the end surface of the housing.
NOTE
- For a bearing of the left side, select the pressing side of the needle bearing driver according to its pressing depth.
- When pressing in the needle bearings of the left side, adjust the pressing depth with the spacer [C].
- Install the needle bearings so that the marked side faces out.

Special Tools - Bearing Driver Set: 57001-1129
Needle Bearing Driver,
28:
57001-1610
Spacer
28: 57001-1663
Needle Bearing Driver,
20 &
Spacer,
28
(Spacer): 57001-1678
Press in the ball bearing until it bottomed.
Special Tool - Bearing Driver Set: 57001-1129
- Install the circlip.
Special Tool - Inside Circlip Pliers: 57001-143
- Press in the grease seals so that seal surface is flushed with the end of housing.
Special Tool - Bearing Driver Set: 57001-1129

32 mm (1.26 in.) [A] 1 mm (0.04 in.) [B] 1.5 mm (0.06 in.) [C] 9.5 mm (0.37 in.) [D] 27.5 mm (1.08 in.) [E] Needle Bearings [F] Grease Seals [G] Ball Bearing [H] Circlip [I]
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