Rear Wheel and Driveshaft Lube

[Skippy]

The internet tends to blow things out of proportion. Nature of the beast. There is somebody over on ThumperTalk that swears you have to check valve clearances after every ride or your bike will blow up. Some reasonableness filtering is always in order.
- Mark

Yep, I also have a 2005 CRF250X, so I know exactly what you mean about Thumpertalk.

Skippy

 

[blue04fjr]

Err, the reason it looks as though the grease is only on the end of the shaft is the grease is naturally pushed back into the housing by the shaft when it's inserted.

JS

Err, that was the shaft as it was removed from the output of the transmission.

I asked Yamaha about this and they said it was correct: only about that much of the shaft engages the output of the transmission. That is what surprised me - not the amount of lube.