Very few have been done, even less with documentation.
srinath wrote on 06/10/09 at 05:58:24:I've never had to split the head bearings on anything to want to change them.
I do head bearings all the time including 2-3 just this week. I am doing a katana FE swap on a GS, a dirt bike front end on the savage, and so on and last month I swapped the SV's ball type to tapered roller ... usually they seal it tight from the weather, put water proof grease in the bearings @ the factroy (except the new crop of sport bikes with the idiotic ball type beairngs - no grease and crappy crappy crappy bearings) ...
The bearings in there are sealed from weather as long as the dust seals top and bottom are intact. the grease is on them and not going anywhere ... you'd never have to replace them unless you're swapping stems or have had it get damaged in a crash.
Even so, swingarm bearings are much much rarer to swap. I have done 2 so far in my life ... one was on the rat savage 2 years ago, and other was on a GS, and I made a mistake on it and ruined it to start with.
There is a funny story about that though ... I shattered that thing in my driveway and the pins lay on the driveway/yard for months.
then I open this seca 600 carb and find that I have had to destroy a float pin to get it out - better than destroying a float pin post I say ... and find out the GS500 swingarm bearing needles are exactly the right sixe length and dia for the seca float pin.
Anywya, just keep the dust seals intact and they last forever. I have pulled FE's off bikes lying face down in the dirt @ junkyards for years to find semi useable stem bearings. The dust seals work ...
Cool.
Srinath.
srinath wrote on 07/30/07 at 21:06:12:Find a new shop - this is why ...
Wheel bearings are generic - I routinely pay $5-10 for one, neck bearings are called taper bearings and they run 15 or so each, recently swapped out swingarm bearings. Needle bearings - $8+5 shipping and inner race was $8 and 5 shipping. I dropped a GS500 race in there.
To install any of those, I'll charge a 6 pack of decent brew. Removal is 5 beers, installing is the 6th.
The swingarm beairngs are the hardest to get out and hardest to install, neck and wheel bearings just need a good punch and a good hammer.
Pulley if the spline is OK reuse it. The transmission drive stub shaft will more than likely be fine. Its hardended steel.
Oil seals are also generic items, and dont cost more than $2-5.
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Srinath.