That BMW grease is actually a Silver powder molly antisiez. It
won't really hurt the clutch any, but it does save the the splines. If
the disk hangs on the shaft the gears will crunch every time and will
eventually deform the dogs on the gears, and BMW motorcyle transmission
work isn't cheap. I used to be the Parts manager at a Seattle Area
Kawasaki / BMW dealer. Wow! That was 18 years ago...gettin to old for
this "stuff".
Rich
> ----------
> From: frodo4(at)ix.netcom.com[SMTP:frodo4(at)ix.netcom.com]
> Sent: Friday, April 04, 1997 5:36 PM
> To: Jay Laifman
> Cc: alpines(at)autox.team.net
> Subject: Re: 1st motion lube
>
> You wrote:
> >
> >Someone once mentioned that there is a lubricant that goes on the
> first
> >motion shaft splines where the clutch plate slides. I have never
> done
> so
> >thinking that anything "sticky" enough not to spin off wouldn't do
> much
> >good on the lubrication front. I'm going to put my transmission back
>
> in
> >the car next week, so have the chance to do it if there really is
> >something. Any thoughts? Any idea what the product is?
> >
> >Jay
> >
>
> I have always assembled clutches with the shaft dry - as we all heve.
> But I also own a BMW bike, and part of the service ( every 30000miles)
>
> is to separate the box from engine (it has a car type dry clutch) and
> lube the clutch/shaft splines. If this is not done, shifting gets
> nasty, and the splines die.
> We are supposed to use some overpriced BMW grease, but most just use a
>
> thin smear of moly grease.
>
> John SerieIV
>
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