Bloody steering head bearings.

on the 82 1200 project I just put the new steering head bearings in the frame neck, top and bottom, and installed the fork yokes.

on this particular frame, it took two shim washers inside the bottom frame neck to space the bearing race properly, and one shim washer inside the top frame neck to space the top bearing race properly.

I first installed the bottom bearing race with only one shim washer, it was not quite enough, I had to remove the race to add a second shim washer.

Sunday I am going to install the new needle bearings in the freshly painted swing arm....

Paul LeClair
 
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