It has begun!!

This the first rebuild we have ever done...wish us luck!!  We started the tear down around 5pm yesterday and by 8pm, we had the engine completely removed.

When we first go the bike, the swing arm bolt was ceased pretty good.  But from the time we bought it, I had been applying PB Blaster to it, and when it came time to remove it, it came out pretty easily.  Took a look at the swing arm bearings, and the innards of them fell out in my hand...

Right Side

Left Side

The engine itself looks to be in pretty good shape, one of the previous owner changed out the stator cover and put a Boyeson Factory Racing cover on it...I like the look of OEM my self, so we may change that out

The top  for the case saver has been broken

Taking a look at the radiators, they have both taken a beating.  The left one more so than the right, but they still hold coolant with no leaks!  Hopefully we will be able to send them out to a place in Utah that fixes them (at a reasonable price from what I hear).

Next we will finish removing the sub-frame, swing arm, forks and anything else that is attached to the frame so we can prep it for paint.  Then we will start replacing bearings, and putting a new top end on the motor and fixing anything else we need to.