Engine came out without to much difficulty...but boy, that bugger is heavy! lifted it up on to a table...bout all I could do to get her up there.
The biggest issue I had was when I took off the exhaust, I found this:
Seems the exhaust has rusted a little bit. I was hoping they were solid, and I could clean up the exhaust, and recoup some of the money from the project. Not sure if I can fix it up or not...
One good thing that did come out of pulling the engine was that I found a hidden set of keys. This bike had a set of Bates bags and trunk on it at one time. Only bad part was I didn't have the keys for any of the locks. Well, strung up on the center stand was a set of keys black taped up...sort of. Turns out one of the keys fits the locks on the bags and trunk, so now when I go to sell them, I can hopefully get a little more for them...just need to figure out how much to price them for.
So far, the frame seems to be in good shape..little bit of surface rust, but nothing more. Now I can get the tank out, and strip the rest of the frame down for whenever I decide what color I want the frame to be.
Coming along slow, but steady.





