It's time to start putting things back on the bike, but there's still several things to be done on the way.
The rear break overhaul. Pulled it apart, cleaned everything in de-greaser, prepped the cover with some 360 grit, primed and 3 coats of VHT Caliper paint.
New EBC shoes and springs to go in.
Then the swing arm. I removed the bearings before sending to powder coaters. Time to put them back on.
I'm a little psychic (not psycho) and I can tell that some amongst you are seeing problems for me up ahead.
Let's find out.
First, refit a new dust plate in the left side bearing housing. No problems so far.
Correct bearings in hand. Still good.
Driving outer bearing race...first attempt. No good.
Heat up the swing arm housing. Second attempt. No good.
Freeze outer race. Third attempt. No good.
The photo above shows an unfortunate event about to happen. It did. This is not a staged photo. I'm video taping for my youtube video series, and I take the photos out of frames from the video. There's just no need to see what happens next.
Finally, animal instinct....just bang harder. Oops.
That's the powder coat cracking off. As it turns out, it's pretty thick.
Sooooooooo........I thought I had been pretty clever by placing bolts and nuts on all threaded mounts to stop powder coat from obstructing threads, etc, but it seems I forgot about the bearing housings. Well, not so much I forgot, but didn't see it coming.
Anyway, I used my laboratory motor (dremel style) to removed the coat from inside the housing, left a good solid edge on the powder coat so it wouldn't continue chipping off, placed the outer race....easily, blocked it out, and primed and touched up with some metallic silver paint from a can. Don't look too bad.
What I will say about this episode, is that although I have placed bearings in the engine so far, I didn't know how thick paint or powdercoat is, and did not have a preconceived idea of how much force was required to press these bearings in. The more you do...the more you learn.
The right side bearing didn't present such a challenge.
Using a bearing puller to knock out the old outer race.
New outer race went in without dramas.
But fitting the housing in the frame may present some yet. I think I will be back using my dremel again....but will leave it for another time.