An hour or so of hot work later and the swingarm is looking respectably clean.
Lift out the spacers and check and clean the bearings on both sides.
On the left side it is a needle bearing and on the right side its a sealed bearing.
Make sure there is no play, no corrosion anywhere or pitting on the sleeves.
Grease everything up with oodles of grease and put it all back into the swingarm.
Another few hours cleaning and the back of the bike starts to look respectable.
Get everything together ready for reassembly.
Dab some grease on the frame spacer to hold it in place and put it into the left inside of the frame.
Grease the swingarm spindle.
Lift the swingarm back into place and slide the spindle through the left side of the frame and through
the swingarm.
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Remove it and put it in a magnetic storage tray or a toolbox draw.
Now you can see the lock ring and the clamp ring.
Using the special pegged tool (see the tools page) undo the lock ring.
remove it and store it with the swingarm bolt.
Then using the special pegged tool (see the tools page) to undo theclamping ring.
Dont remove it. Just screw it part way out.
Screw it far enough out so that the thread clears the swingarm.
Use a drift and gently tap the end of the swingarm spindle to start it moving.
And then slide it right out.
As you slide it out, support the swingarm.
Ease it downwards and backwards, out from its position and off the rear suspension
unit.
You may need to pull the lower end of the suspension backwards slightly to
facititate this.
Swingarm is now free.
Make sure that you retrieve the spacer washer from the inside of the left side of the
frame.
One removed swingarm.
Then use the special pegged tool (see the tools page) to tighten thespindle
clamping ring to the correct torque.
All torque settings can be found on the torque page.
And torque it up to the correct torque.
All torque settings can be found on the torque page.
Before you do this use a felt pen to make a small mark on the frame and the lock ring
so that you can check after tightening up the spindle bolt you can be sure the lock
ring has not moved and overtightened itself.
Use the special pegged tool (see the tools page) to tighten the lock ring to the
correct torque.
All torque settings can be found on the torque page
Replace the lock ring
Then replace the greased spacers into the bottom of the suspension.
You may find that you need to hold the left hand end of the spindle with a hex socket
as you tighten the bolt on the other end.
Putting the linkage back together is just a simple reverse of removing them. Then
use the torx sockets to tighten the bolts up to the correct torque.
All torque settings can be found on the torque page.
