After the restoration: 7200-mile service [page 5]
Tuesday, Jan 13, 2004
It was too cold in the garage yesterday, but I did go to the store to pick up some needed supplies. It's warmer this afternoon so I worked on the bike a bit.
The transmission went back into the bike after applying some BMW #10 to the
splines. I cleaned and checked the exposed part of the clutch cable.
It looks fine. It's now got a fine coat of the same grease I use for
wheel bearings and swing arm bearings, waterproof boat trailer grease.
The swing arm was reinstalled with the bolt holding the brake linkage
bell crank inserted the correct way this time. The left shock mount
was attached to the swing arm. My silent blocks are loose in the shock
eyes. Also, I notice that the washer is smaller than the shock eye.
This means the shock could slide off the silent block. I wonder if
that is normal.
Maybe I should have skipped working on the bike today. I went to fill
the transmission with oil and realized that I didn't have enough. I was
at the store yesterday and forgot to buy some. Then I dropped the rear
fendor while trying to install it and put some nice scratches in the paint.
The fender was not in the best of shape in the first place as I didn't
do any body work, just had it painted. Now it is in worse shape. Sigh.
Anyway, the bike is ready to attach the drive shaft to the transmission, install the rear end (when it has been fixed), and continue with the normal part of the service. I'll do some of that tomorrow, weather permitting.
Thursday, Jan 15, 2004
The wet/fog didn't break until quite late in the afternoon. As a result I only spent an hour and a half in the garage. That was just enough time to hook up the drive shaft and remount the mufflers.
In my belt and suspenders approach I used new screws with lockwashers and
locktite. That should keep them from backing off.
I used lots of anti-sieze when installing the headers and mufflers. The
only down side is that once you get some on your fingers it gets all over
the bike. After putting the exhaust back together I had to clean it
again.