Re: [MV] Early M548 road wheel idler arms

From: Douglas Greville (dgrev@iinet.net.au)
Date: Sun Aug 08 2004 - 15:52:44 PDT


Douglas

> The early model M548's don't have grease fittings on the road wheel idler
> arms, instead drain and fill plugs. Does anyone know what kind of oil they
> take? I suspect 30W, same as the road wheel bearings but would like other
> opinions.

Mate you are wasting your time. They are a bad design and just like the
oil in the hubs, it doesn't want to stay in there. There is a
mod out to convert them to grease nipples as was done with the hubs.

Regards
Doug

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