What's the reason for greasing the speedo housing it is a sealed bearing ? Or am I missing something ?
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I think that bearing has a grease hole in the outer race.
correct, the holes help drive the water out of the bearing with fresh grease. I would suggest using a good water proof grease also.
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powerfuldodge
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I have a 2011,2012,2013 when I switched out tracks on these sleds none of these had grease from factory . So should I be greasing them?
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2013 pro rmk
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2006 660 switchback
2014 dodge ram 3500 Lon
Powerfuldodge@me.com
2013 pro rmk
2012 136" switchback turbo
2008 megacab long box
2010 600 switchback
2006 660 switchback
2014 dodge ram 3500 Lon
Holes in the outer race...not the shield.
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Didn't the older sleds have open bearings ? Mine is out now I will look for holes but why would you have holes in a sealed bearing ? Would grease in the cup screw up the speedo sending a false code to the ecm ? Dumb ? #2
I just had mine apart. There is no holes in the outer race of the bearing. Guessing earlier sleds had non sealed bearings. No reason to grease the speedo
Mine is an 11 as well. my guess is that previous models use the same housing as the pros and that the previous models used a greasable bearing. But on the Pros (at least my 11) Is a sealed bearing that can not be greased through the outer race. So pumping grease into this grease cert is doing nothing but making a mess.
I just set up a new assault and when I was running it the speedo would bounce around from 10 to 95mph. So I started investigating and thought, well I'll give it some grease and see if that helps the sensor. Sure enough I fired it back up and it worked like it should. I pulled the housing off to see if there was something bouncing around in there and there was just some metal filings. So those few filings that were in there were screwing up the sensor by bouncing around in there but they would get suspended in the grease once it had a couple pumps. You're also not supposed to give them more than a couple pumps of grease at a time.
