New things

Some new parts came..

Nice re-silvered headlamp reflector

Just the mufflers are new...

The exhaust system was loosly assembled, and painted high temp black. Then on to whats left of the engine...

Timing and crank gears

timing gear removed

camshaft removed

cam shaft. Good condition

Tappets. covered in some kind of thick treacle type goo.

Tappets removed

Dirty tappets

Clean tappets and gears

Front crank shaft bearing with crank shaft in

Crank shaft removed

the crank came out surprisingly easily. There is a method to it though. Perhaps getting it back in could be the hard part?

Pressed out front crank bearing

Empty case (i did also remove the oil filter but forgot to take pics)

Bearing looks good.

 After much de-greasing,  scrubbing, this is what happened.

Nice clean parts

Nice clean case

Clean inside if case

More clean case

Cleaned rear bearing cover

 Now stuff was all sparkling and clean. It seemed a good idea to put it all back together..

Crank back in

 Yes it was a bit tricky to get back in, again there is s method to it, got it in there in the end.

Twist crank in to correct position.

Press in front bearing

Press the crank back into the front bearing + cover on.

Crank gear on, and camshaft in.

Clean gears

Tappets back in

Oil pump gear back in.

oil pump secured

Rear of the crank (forgot to take pic of bearing cover going on)

Flywheel in place (and clutch got in there too later)

Generator on + Piston heads back on

nearly there.

Igniton in and covers on.

Well now thats done. Im waintg for some gearbox seals so that will go on also when they arrive.
Next things to look at..

last tail light to do

 Yes the next image isnt that exciting. Im using a chemical bath to strip the rust and goo, from the iside of the tank.

tank with chemical bath

some of the goo inside

 then as all went well, i assembled the light back into it housing and put it back on the bike..

bike with light