Drive Shaft seized on the final drive splines

[Grumpy Goat]

Hi all and especially Grumpy.
I have had a nagging feeling that I was wrong in my last post, so I have dropped the FD again.
I am a muppet what is there is standard BUT FD will not drop to disengage rear UJ hub.
Worse than that my finding that the front of the cardan was sliding is correct. So either the 'C' clip at the front has never been snapped into place or is not there. The pictures show at least 3/4" sliding on the transmission end. This movement I think is preventing the FD end disengaging.

Alan, we are in total agreement on that. With the front coupling sliding (due to no clip) I think that it would be the exception rather than the rule for the rear coupling to slide off the FD spline, unless ... (I address this in Part 2 of the series set to drop tomorrow morning).

Also about a tablespoon of water in the bottom of the swingarm, this greasing is not in the maintainance shedule at all so dealer will not look in here. Do I tell my dealer that the cardan is not right and I found it myself as I do not wish a problem in the future because it will fail when 100 miles from home. Bike has only 6900 miles on and is half way through warranty.

Here is a screen-grab of the same spot in my swingarm.

   

With only dust in my swingarm I guess I am lucky, as you are not the only one to mention water coming out. Did you have heavy water on the rear gaiter, for example? Or ford any streams? I really cannot understand how water will remain in there under normal use. In Part 2, when one sees my corrosion there may be a few hypotheses. Maybe they should put a drain hole in that low point. Or maybe someone here might drill one in their swingarm.