Stripped To The Bone

Due to the excess of time this week thanks to not having to go to work I have been hiding in the garage the odd afternoon.

Set to stripping the bike down to it's bare bones.
Finished stripping down the forks, bit of a pain as there is a washer between the top bush and seal, the washer gets dished when pulling the tube out. Only £3 each for new ones, then there's the new bushes, seal, outer seals and spring clips. Looks like I'll need to replace the compression valves too.

The rest was pretty plain sailing with most major bolts shifting easily, had a few sheared screws but should fairly easy to remove. Rear wheel out, sub frame off foot pegs and hangers off, wiring loom out. Then drained the diff oil, looked very clean, remove diff along with prop shaft, universal joint out to give access to the swinging arm pivot bolt.
Swinging arm off and I'm left with a rolling chassis.



Just left to separate the engine from the frame, few tight screws that needed some gentle persuasion and some heat to soften locktite and also some of my home made WD40.
Home made WD40= 50% acetone and 50% ATF oil (Automatic transmission fluid) in a spray bottle. This stuff really seems to work ATF has rust removal properties and the acetone helps to transport it.

I have stripped many parts as sub assemblies to clean and paint later.

So then it was onto preparing the bits for powder coat or paint. Started with the frame as that only had one sheared screw near the head stock.
As you can see from the pic the boss has been slightly butchered, not by me this one was done by the previous bloke. 


You can see the state of the paintwork and why it requires tarting up. As this is just the radiator mount I decided it would need cleaning up a bit so set to with the dremmel to clean it up and provide more access to the sheared thread, then cut a slot in the thread and out it popped.



Finally tidy up with a file, I will pop a spacer in to bring it back if need be.


So that's the frame ready next is the subframe.

Another good afternoon fettling.

I have now removed all the snapped screws from the frame, sub-frame and swing arm. 
I will need to helicoil 2 threads, as the left handed drill didn't get them, that's easy enough.

Just need to strip a few more bits down, foot peg hangers and swing arm bearings and it's all ready for powder coat.

Next will be the engine.