After the restoration: 9600-mile service [page 3]
Sunday, Jan 23, 2005
The fog finally broke this morning. It's not too cold working in the garage with the sun providing a little heat. Time to swap out my final drive.
I think Scott showed me this trick. I added a washer as a spacer between
the right muffler mounting tab and the frame. It makes the right muffler
stick out just slightly, but gives the bike a more balanced look from the
rear.
I remove the mufflers and, as I usually do when they are off the bike, gave them a good cleaning. Some 0000 steel wool and Mothers polish got the road grime off. Too bad it's not that easy to remove the scratches from the time the pipes came off the bike while riding down the freeway.
I pulled the wheel and checked its balance while I had it off the bike.
The balancer is the Marc Parnes unit with the addition of a front wheel
reducing spacer to center the wheel bearings. I'd checked the rear wheel
bearings a few months ago. Of course I cleaned the hubcap and rims while
the wheel was off the bike, too.
I removed the mounting nuts and then unscrewed the right hand shock
mount and removed the drive. The brake shoes came off along with the
brake lever -- I'll use both with the replacement drive. The paper gasket
between drive shaft and drive was in excellent shape. It too will be used
with the replacement drive.
The drive mounted to the drive shaft, but the shock mounting bolt did not
want to start. A bottle jack under the drive helped line up the shock
mounting hole. The bolt started much easier this way. The brake pivot and
cam were very lightly greased and the brake shoes installed.
The original brake lever is installed along with the rest of the brake
linkage, lightly greased. The drive splines were greased when I finished
rebuilding the drive. The wheel was put back on the bike. The bike
came off the center stand and I bounced it up and down a few times before
putting it back on the stand and tightening the pinch bolt.
The last things today were filling the drive shaft and the final drive with gear oil and spinning the wheel while adjusting the rear brake. I left the mufflers off the bike as I want to pull the pipes for for a good cleaning. I'll get to that and other things in the days to come.