Well.... you should NOT be able to feel 'dry splines' clanking through the bike. As I remember, you said you could feel the knock....? But if a finger full of grease 'cured' it I guess that was the root problem.
One thing I am not so sure about is the seemingly relaxed attitude you now have. I think you might be underreacting in the face of good news. Perhaps you should think for a moment that something like greasing the splines too often could result in too much inertia in the driveshaft thereby resulting in too much wear on the bevel gears? Hmmmmm? Just because something horrible is not happening right at the moment, there is no need to stop worrying about what you may be doing to cause something horrible to happen in the future. And then there is the possibility that something you are not doing might cause something horrible to happen in the future. With all these possibilities, is it really reasonable to stop worrying entirely?
All in good fun Jeremy. Glad it turned out to be nothing.
Brian
Final verdict................ drumroll please..........
Dry splines. Pretty anticlimatic, huh? They were lubed late last summer, but I guess I ride enough that I should add some grease more than once a year. They also said the rear wheel bearings were on the way to going bad. Hmmm, shoddy All Balls bearings or did I screw them up when I installed them? I do remember that the front bearings were quite a bit easier to install than the rear. All of this was covered by the GTPP. I figured that I would at least be on the hook for the bearings but Stahlman Powersports in Rolla really took care of me and my bike on this one.
Back to your normal oil/tire/KiPass thread.
