Removing grease gun from alemites on outside bearings...

[too_many_hobbies]

I had trouble removing the grease gun while greasing the outside bearings on my 650HD. I started out using a grease gun with a rigid tube with a slight bend to position the grease gun fitting straight on the alemite when reaching through the holes in the rims. I was trying to pull the grease gun straight off and pulled one of the alemites out (they are press-in instead of the thread-in type).

I removed the tracks and tires from my machine and discovered a simple trick that made me feel stupid afterwards. The picture below is of a grease gun with a flexible tube sticking straight through the hole:


This next picture shows that, if you rotate the axle, the grease gun fitting will be safely twisted off the alemite: