Kawasaki Ninja Service Manual: Swingarm Bearing Installation

• Replace the needle bearings, ball bearing, grease seals and circlip with new ones.
• Install the needle bearings, ball bearing, grease seals and circlip as shown in the figure.

Insert the needle bearing driver [A] into the needle bearing [B] and press the needle bearing into the housing until the driver contacts the end surface of the housing.

NOTE

• For a bearing of the left side, select the pressing side of the needle bearing driver according to its pressing depth.
• When pressing in the needle bearings of the left side, adjust the pressing depth with the spacer [C].
• Install the needle bearings so that the marked side faces out.

Special Tools - Bearing Driver Set: 57001-1129

Needle Bearing Driver, 28:
57001-1610

Spacer 28: 57001-1663

Needle Bearing Driver, 20 &
Spacer, 28
(Spacer): 57001-1678

Press in the ball bearing until it bottomed.

Special Tool - Bearing Driver Set: 57001-1129

• Install the circlip.

Special Tool - Inside Circlip Pliers: 57001-143

• Press in the grease seals so that seal surface is flushed with the end of housing.

Special Tool - Bearing Driver Set: 57001-1129

32 mm (1.26 in.) [A] 1 mm (0.04 in.) [B] 1.5 mm (0.06 in.) [C] 9.5 mm (0.37 in.) [D] 27.5 mm (1.08 in.) [E] Needle Bearings [F] Grease Seals [G] Ball Bearing [H] Circlip [I]