# Service bulletin SMT\-TN\-162

A bulletin is a manufacturer's communication to its dealers, as NHTSA indexes it. The summary is NHTSA's. The document is the manufacturer's: read it at NHTSA. A bulletin is not a recall, and listing a model year does not mean every vehicle of it is concerned.

- Type: Service bulletin
- NHTSA id: 10192918
- Published by NHTSA: 2021\-05\-10
- Manufacturer's number: SMT\-TN\-162
- Manufacturer's date: 2015\-03\-01
- NHTSA component: WHEELS

## NHTSA's summary

Additional grease to NLGI 2 specification \(Triumph recommends Castrol Grease\) has been added to fill the gap between the seal and the needle roller bearing within the rear pulley carrier on the above models from VIN 667870. All Thunderbird Models from start of production. When the rear wheel spindle has been removed for whatever reason, check and, if necessary, add grease to fill the gap between the seal and the needle roller bearing, as shown in the illustration below.

## The document

- [NHTSA's copy of the document (PDF)](https://static.nhtsa.gov/odi/tsbs/2015/MC-10192918-0001.pdf)
- [If that address does not open, try this one](https://static.nhtsa.gov/odi/tsbs/2015/MC-10192918-9999.pdf)

The document is the manufacturer's. This site does not hold it.

## Components

Wheels

## Vehicles listed

- 1995 to 2003 TRIUMPH THUNDERBIRD
- 2010 TRIUMPH THUNDERBIRD
- 2012 to 2014 TRIUMPH THUNDERBIRD
- 2010 to 2011 TRIUMPH THUNDERBIRD A1
- 2014 TRIUMPH THUNDERBIRD ABS
- 2010 to 2011 TRIUMPH THUNDERBIRD ABS A1
- 2015 TRIUMPH THUNDERBIRD COMMANDER ABS
- 2015 to 2017 TRIUMPH THUNDERBIRD LT ABS A1
- 2015 TRIUMPH THUNDERBIRD NIGHTSTORM
- 1998 to 2000 TRIUMPH THUNDERBIRD SPORT
- 2003 to 2004 TRIUMPH THUNDERBIRD SPORT
- 2011 to 2014 TRIUMPH THUNDERBIRD STORM
- 2016 to 2017 TRIUMPH THUNDERBIRD STORM ABS A1

## Recalls for the same vehicles and component

- [13V032000](/recalls/nhtsa/13V032000.md), 2013-01-29: WHEELS

## Other bulletins for the same vehicles and component

- [SMTTB18419Februa](/bulletins/10138362.md), 2018-05-21, Service bulletin: WHEELS; POWER TRAIN; ELECTRICAL SYSTEM. Technical Bulletin 184 provides instructions that apply to Electronic Systems Commissioning and Motorcycle Unlocking, Final Drive Belt, Front Fork Reflector, Clutch Cable Guide, Big End Bearing Selection Chart, Detent Wheel and Detent Lever Spring, Triumph Diagnostic Tool Compatibility with Windows Operating Systems, Rider Foot Pegs, Factory Activated Batteries \(replaces Technical Bulletin 182\).
- [80](/bulletins/10018350.md), 2005-12-22, Service bulletin: WHEELS. WIRE SPOKED WHEELS. TRIUMPH . \*TT

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