So, finally got the bike all tore down, degreased and ready for blasting. Remember I said it was a leaker? Holy crap, it had oil and dirt baked on about a half an inch thick in places. Now it's apart, the frame I thought had little rust... has plenty. I'll find out more when it's back from blasting, but I'm pretty sure none of it is a show stopper
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The worst rust is of course the left side where everybody forgot to reconnect the battery vent tube, which is odd because the battery box itself had little rust.
Other than that, it looks in good shape. Swingarm bushings are as tight as I ever seen and I ordered a set of All Balls tapered rollers last night from Amazon for the head. Bout ten bucks cheaper than Mike's wanted and free shipping to boot
Now I'm doing something I always wanted to try... Ya know them areas on the frame where it's damn near impossible to keep clean? You know, where they welded two pieces together and didn't completely weld around the whole piece... left a gap like this...
This is the swingarm brace with a gap large enough to push a #2 phillips into. Well, I peened it down and TIGed it closed.
Once it's blasted, I'm gonna smooth the edges and fill it in with body filler. Then when you wash it, you won't have to take a damn tooth brush to it to clean it out. Gonna do that to the whole frame where you can see it. That and redo some of the welds where they gobbed the wire on.