If you own a quad and frequent the creeks, mud holes or other wet conditions long enough you will eventually be faced with the problem of having a swinger bolt seize on ya.
as many of you know it can be a big problem to remove and in extreme cases it has to be cut out with a sawz-all or hack saw.
with a tip from a ole fellow R rider i followed thru and came up with a means to prevent this using the stock hollow swinger bolt.
heres how it works....
first you have the 2 holes drilled in the swinger in the locations approx. where bearings ride on the "hing pin" and do the same for the hing pin itself. if you have the open type swinger where the swinger bolt goes through the engine also. you should drill holes in this location aswell. unless you have a drill press and the right bits to do this you'll have to have this done because the metal is very hard and regular drill bits will not work.
after the holes are drilled you'll need to thread one end of the swinger bolt for a greese zirk and plug the other end. either by tapping threads for a short bolt/screw or by filling it with JB weld. either way is fine.
once this is done you now assemble things as normal and your ready to fill it with greese. each and every time you ride in extreme wet conditions its a good idea to pump a few shots of greese in there. this expells any water that may have entered while riding.
heres a couple pics