question on bearing installation?

[kyle]

what all is involved in replacing the swing arm bearings and the steering stem bearings on a 250 es big red1985?is there any special tools for getting the drive shaft off? is it easy to replace these bearings? thanks kyle

[Fuzzy]

I dont know about it being easy. But i dont think they would be impossable either. But most swing arm bearing are a bugger to get the old ones out. So i think the biggest problem would be taking all the drive shaft stuff off. So that you could get to the swing arm. I dont think they require any special tools. Just commen metric wrenches and sockets.

As far as the steering stem bearings. They are probable the old ball bearing style in there. You could replace them with newer roller bearing. They sell them in a kit.

[ATC_250SX]

the swingarm requres a special socket. the scoket is to remove the jam nut on the pivot pin. honda wants like 150 bucks for the tool, or the shop by me said they'd undo the nut, then after i re assembled it theyd re torque it for me for like 10 bucks. and the bearings can be a roal beotch to get out, at least mine were in my sx. the headset is pretty easy though. and as for the shaft it has a spline that it justt slides of as you take of the rear end.

[84200s/m]

isn't the special tool a 17mm allen wrench or is hat the trx 300 i am think of if its a 17mm allen wrench than its easy get a bole and 2 17mm nuts dubble nut it and back it out

[ATC_250SX]

nope its like a spanner nut that you need a scoket with four lugs on it to get it off its the jamnut for the pin. the pin threads into the swingarm and the spaner nut is the jam against the swingarm. pop out the plastic cover on the machine and look and youll see what the thing im speaking of.

[84200s/m]

does anyone have a pic of what it looks like so i can get an idea of the tool you need