i do not know if any of you have done something like this before, but this is what i did to my 99 450 es. as you may know honda does not like grease zerks or something. i do. so on the back bearing holder i drilled and tapped in a grease zerk. you may think that you may not need this cause hondas "sealed" bearings but when i pumped mine full of grease i had some watter run out. just thought that this might help some of you.