Swinging arm not sure where this should be

[ianstaley]

So been back to the bike today and tried to figure out where the circlip is on the swinging arm. Please be patient, the wheel or dif end, is/was full of grease, it took me nearly 20 minutes to clear it of the packed grease. So I can see one circlip as I look in the shaft, it took me another 20 minutes just to clean out the grease in the dif assembly, I haven't drained the dif of any oil as yet. At the engine end where the universal joint is I can't see a circlip on the engine side is there one on the dif side of the CV joint. It is so full of grease in there I am at a loss to see. My manual doesn't say but infers that there is a circlip on the engine side of the CV joint. I see the splines and the CV but not the circlip. So my question is at the engine side of the drive shaft, do I need a 90 deg circlip pliers? Has anyone done a write up on this. The clip at the wheel end is about 2.5" inside the shaft housing, so straight but long pliers will be needed.
Ian

 

[AApple]

shfring

• AApple
• Jun 25, 2012
• 1

Driveshaft snapring

 

[wilcoy02]

So what bike are we talking about? a GL1000 or GL1100?

 

[ianstaley]

Ah sorry thought my signature was there any way a GL1000. 1978/79 I bought her in Holland years ago, on the Dutch registration it says 1980.
The registration says that the frame number is
GL2-4016517 and that it is a GL 1000 K3

Then it says Code ? 80HONML11056517
The document was issued on the 16 June 1980

Issue date doesn't mean a lot as it could have been i a dealer for a year before it was sold.

Ian

 

[Denver]

The month & year it was made should be on the metal plate, that's on the neck of frame.

 

[ianstaley]

Hum okay when I go to the bike this afternoon I will take a look for the plate. Ian