Just poking around my new 07 S40, and I see no obvious grease zerks for the steering head nor for the swingarm. Is this correct, or am I just not looking hard enough. I hate to think that for lack of a 10 cent fitting I will someday need to disassemble the bearings just to lube them.


thanks,


paul

I've never had to split the head bearings on anything to want to change them.
I do head bearings all the time including 2-3 just this week. I am doing a katana FE swap on a GS, a dirt bike front end on the savage, and so on and last month I swapped the SV's ball type to tapered roller ... usually they seal it tight from the weather, put water proof grease in the bearings @ the factroy (except the new crop of sport bikes with the idiotic ball type beairngs - no grease and crappy crappy crappy bearings) ...
The bearings in there are sealed from weather as long as the dust seals top and bottom are intact. the grease is on them and not going anywhere ... you'd never have to replace them unless you're swapping stems or have had it get damaged in a crash.
Even so, swingarm bearings are much much rarer to swap. I have done 2 so far in my life ... one was on the rat savage 2 years ago, and other was on a GS, and I made a mistake on it and ruined it to start with.
There is a funny story about that though ... I shattered that thing in my driveway and the pins lay on the driveway/yard for months.
then I open this seca 600 carb and find that I have had to destroy a float pin to get it out - better than destroying a float pin post I say ... and find out the GS500 swingarm bearing needles are exactly the right sixe length and dia for the seca float pin.
Anywya, just keep the dust seals intact and they last forever. I have pulled FE's off bikes lying face down in the dirt @ junkyards for years to find semi useable stem bearings. The dust seals work ...
Cool.
Srinath.

Steering neck bearings don't get much abuse  

Think about it..... they are fairly nice bearings.  They get  maybe an inch of travel in each direction.