A Arm Bushings - can I do it? Any video of it being done??

[Mikey]

I know they are a PITA to get to!!! I'd like to come up with a better way to get them.

 

[pegasus1300]

IIRC 2012 was the last year for the zerks. My 2012 has them. I replaced the factory ones with 90* zerks from NAPA. They are a metric size but I don't remember what. In the old sticky post on " do's and don'ts for new Spyder riders" there is post on doing this for easier access.

 

[EdMat]

So just cos your manual shows anything, it doesn't necessarily mean that actually applies to your Spyder year &/or model!

It seems no one at BRP has read the definition of what a manual should be

 

[BajaRon]

We have (2) 2013 RT's in the shop right now and both have zerks on the A-Arms. We use one of these 90 degree zerk adapters to get to them.

 

[Mikey]

We have (2) 2013 RT's in the shop right now and both have zerks on the A-Arms. We use one of these 90 degree zerk adapters to get to them.

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I tried one of those and found that you have to be at almost a 90 degree to the fitting and my hands for whatever reason didn't work out, I had grease all over everything but where it was supposed to be. I got one of those fittings that you have to put on and tighten up, grease and loosen it up to take it off. That works pretty well till you drop one of the jaws out of it and can't find it and have to buy the whole thing again because the company don't do just jaws. Going to look at the 90 degree fittings this year!!! Thank you Paul!!!

 

[Freddy]

We have (2) 2013 RT's in the shop right now and both have zerks on the A-Arms. We use one of these 90 degree zerk adapters to get to them.

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I Tried one of those very early on but it didn't work for me - like Mikey. I put 90 and 45 degree grease nipples in (6mm thread).

 

[RangerRick]

On my 2013 this works great for me