Swing arm

Hi,

As the frame is done, now is the time to move to the swing arm. Previously it is using the KR150B model, but has damaged because of the sprocket housing have fallen out from the wheel. The swing arm took some serious damage, and as I have a spare swing arm at my disposal, i took it to replace the molested swing arm.

The bearing is rare as a hen's teeth! i thought looking out for a bearing was an easy task, or at least NKS Sentul would have it. It turns out the don't but id found an original swingarm bearing for it, which costs MYR90 for a piece, that's RM 180 thrown out of the window! So the next best thing is to take the bearing from my previous arm,as it still looks good.

But that is not all. After completion of painting the arm black, i found out the previous bearing is still inside, but only the outer cage. This brings the process into a screeching halt. I can't knock it out due to i don't have the correct chisel for it.

Bugger. So once again, i have to bring it to my friend's shop to grind-knock-grind-curse at it and finally it came out. So after freezing up the bearing inside the freezer, and blow torch the arm, the bearing were knocked with a light tap to put it in. Now, time to get the fork sorted out.