I think

[Cykik]

My sprocket carrier bearing has failed or will a bit of lube sort it?? Missing bearings are nowhere to be found...

[Buddynq]

Replace the bearing for sure
From Parts manual - 09262-32007   BEARING (32X65X17)

[seth]

replace the bearing before using the bike again .
if you remove it you'll get ine the same size from the numbers on the edge of it .

good luck with it all .

[gsxbarmy]

As Seth says that bearing is well and truly stuffed and must be replaced before you ride your bike again.

A list of the part numbers and sizes for OEM and aftermarket bearings can be found here http://gsx1400owners.org/forum_test/index.php?topic=197.0
(Koyo are a good aftermarket supplier of bearings)

I'd also recommend putting the new bearing in your freezer for 24 hours before fitting, as it will make it easier to drift in when you fit it

[Andre]

Get bearings that are sealed on both sides. Great quality bearings can be had for peanuts. While you are at it, get new dust seal as well.

[Cykik]

Double sealed bearing & dust shield sourced & ready to fit. I did over 100mls on the bearing ,don't know how some of the balls escaped...

[KiwiCol]

Mice.  It's mice that get them at night, just as well you brought the double sealed ones - that'll keep them out!

[Tony Nitrous]

Mice.  It's mice that get them at night, just as well you brought the double sealed ones - that'll keep them out!

I was thinking Possum.
Little B#stard gets into my Veg garden, hens food, dog food etc.
I recon he'd try rear bearing just to piss me off !

[KiwiCol]

They're protected over in Aussie aren't they?  Considered a pest here & allowed to shoot them, trap them just kill them.  Dunno why the Aussies don't come & get them & take them back home if they like them so much.
Bloody possums!

[Tony Nitrous]

Yeah, not allowed to knock them off.
You can remove them from your loft / roof.
Only supposed to relocate them locally.
He's going to need a NSW / Qld map to get home if I catch him... 

I have a Bush Turkey / Scrub Turkey getting in with my hens.
They tell me he's protected too !!!
Bloody tree hugging greenie Aussies !

[KiwiCol]

Yer Camel Tony!!  Now there's an advantage to help ya swing the vote in your favour, having a camel in the back yard would definitely deter the aforementioned unwanted critters - well, that's as far as you're aware anyway.  Camel ordered for next week then!  Result!

[Kiwifruit]

Some rural schools have possum hunts for fund raisers. But the city greenies are starting to say its barbaric.
Maybe they need to go into the bush and see the damage they cause.

[VladTepes]

Since this thread has gone off-topic (now its been solved) I might as well add that I can't comprehend why here the bloody CROWS are protected.  There are HEAPS of the screaming mongrel bastards !


and don't even start me in those bloody Ibises.


I remember the good old days when you could go up (after hours) to the transfer station recycling centre dump and shoot rats, ibises etc with the .22 or air rifle.

[Andre]

Vlad, you did it! Now I have to throw my 2+ cents into the circle.

For a while I lived in Spain with one of my sisters on a farm. We had a rat plaque. These critters caused much trouble. Spend a lot of money in rat poisoning... to no avail. One night I stood on our tower with my siss and we saw the eyes of the rats glow in the light. I said how easy it would be for me to kill them if I had my tack-driver .22 magnum (which I left in the States together with the rest of my collection). So easy to shoot them right between the eyes as the light seemed to hypnotize them. She responded that I would certainly get quickly into trouble with the law as it was prohibited to shoot rats!!! Poison yes, shooting no.

Next day I heard my sister scream. When I ran to her I saw her throwing  hard pieces of clay at a rat which was only moving slowly like a drunk. I picked up a wooden pastry roller and gave her the knock-out. My siss said that she never hit anything but this time her anger must have guided the clay onto target.

[VladTepes]

A mate of mine shoots rats on his friends pig farm.  Obviously can't use lead etc or it would be bad for the pigs, so he loads up shotgun shells with sorghum, Works a bloody treat out to 20-25 metres ! Can shoot rats in the rafters and not put holes in the roof too....