Final drive service

[Jaskin71]

Hi all, hope you are well. 

I found a lot of information and materials about the final drive service. The process is quite straight forward.
I have ordered all 3 O-rings + the thrust washer.

The part where I'm a bit confused is the "paste" and "grease" .  I found the info about Lucas and Moly producers of the lubricants but I wont be able to go and easily buy the stuff here in Ireland.

Can you please recommend any equivalent available in EU?  Any well known brand which can be ordered online?

Also how likely I will need to replace the Dampeners? bike is '99 Interstate with 60k on the clock.

Thanks in advance.
Ride safe Jiri

[hubcapsc]

I look at my dampers when the wheel's off... lots of "rubber dust"
or looseness is when I change them. They go in pretty tight. There's
two kinds... the original Tourer/STD kind, and the Interstate kind.
They're interchangeable, the Interstate kind seems better and is cheaper.

Industrial supply houses (here we have Grangers and McMaster Carr for
example) should have moly-paste, Amazon too. A jar of loctite is a common
brand.

Some people on this board skip moly paste altogether and use blue bel-ray
waterproof grease with great success.

-Mike

[h13man]

This is the replacement for Honda Moly 60 which a 3oz. tube goes along way.

https://www.amazon.com/Honda-HN-08798-9010-MOLY-PASTE/dp/B0083BWUYW

[Randy52]

I ruined a rear end using Honda M77 Assembly Paste. It dries out. Use the proven products like Bel Ray marine, any molly grease, and reassemble following Chris J's instructions.

[luftkoph]

Factory service manual says

Dow Corning Molykote G-n

Dow Corning Molykote BR 2 plus grease

And multi purpose lithium based NLGI #2

The interface between your final drive flange,thrust washer to the wheel hub get 3g of G-n

3g G-n to the final drive spline

1-2g G-n at joint surface of the final gear case o-ring guide and driven flange

Grease at the dust seal of the wheel

Where the drive shaft mates too the final drive case 2g of BR-2 and the other end of the drive shaft 1g

That’s what Honda recommends, but what do them guys know.

I would imagine these Dow Corning products can be found on Amazon etc

[Chrisj CMA]

Thanks for the shout out Randy. I follow the exact steps in my PowerPoint slide show and have for many years with no wear on the splines. Between my bike and the others I service we’re talking over a quarter of a million miles with no visible wear. But I never judge if someone has a better way.

[CoreyP]

Thanks for the shout out Randy. I follow the exact steps in my PowerPoint slide show and have for many years with no wear on the splines. Between my bike and the others I service we’re talking over a quarter of a million miles with no visible wear. But I never judge if someone has a better way.

That's impressive for a motorcycle. Mine just hit 50,000 so I guess I got a 20 year old baby...

I'm kind of use to bikes that blow up at much fewer miles, actually 50,000 miles you need to do a rebuild of engine for sure if you made it that far.

[-mike-]

Dow Corning Molykote G-n

Dow Corning Molykote BR 2 plus grease

plus one.

-mike-

[gordonv]

I ruined a rear end using Honda M77 Assembly Paste. It dries out. Use the proven products like Bel Ray marine, any molly grease, and reassemble following Chris J's instructions.

Thanks for the shout out Randy. I follow the exact steps in my PowerPoint slide show and have for many years with no wear on the splines. Between my bike and the others I service we’re talking over a quarter of a million miles with no visible wear. But I never judge if someone has a better way.

This PowerPoint write up can be found in Shoptalk, link above in the top block of the page. Left lower side, yellow links.

Dampeners, the IS used a one piece all-in-one and was less expensive. I forget the model and words right now, but there is the Honda 1300 uses a neoprene one which are better. I bought aftermarket, which are no longer available, 2 sets, and just keep them for a when time.