I've just had a good look around the top boot, and its mounted correctly with no holes, or gaps.
Any chance there may be a leak from the front boot?
I've just had a good look around the top boot, and its mounted correctly with no holes, or gaps.
Any chance there may be a leak from the front boot?
Looks clean and tidy after your treatment
Perhaps, if possible, covering the inside of the swingarm with some talcum powder, any trace of water flow will easily be traced.
Honestly don't know. The front boot appears to be well fitted and no obvious signs. However, it's got to be displaced for me to refit the shaft drive so I'll have another good look at it before I do that.
I'll get it out and look for holes.
In the meantime I've painted the other offending parts with Hamerite All-Metals Primer ready for painting.
Thats the annoying part... there's no rust anywhere on my bike... except in the frickin swingarm
I’d rather have rust on the outside where I can see it. At least you know what’s going on. I wonder what the rest of the internals will be like.
What does the gator look like, could it have been forced on wrongly.
Gator is in good condition, no holes. But there was no white lithium grease on it at all.
Should have looked like Jim,s
https://advrider.com/f/threads/r120...ive-change-and-spline-lube-pictorial.1129815/
Mine has NEVER looked like that.
When I took the shaft out of the swing arm.... the paintwork is shite. Really thin and bubbling in places.
The swingarm was full of water !! about an inch deep with bits floating on the top
I already know as the bike is being stripped down this week, everywhere else is good. It's a very clean bike.
Gator is in good condition, no holes. But there was no white lithium grease on it at all.
I just have to ask the question...
Showing the Cam Alignment Jig on the ends of the cams is for what purpose here???
The Cam Chain Tension Tool (83300444292) MUST be installed to properly tension the chain for the check with the alignment jig to mean anything.
In the top picture, the 17mm hex OEM oil pressure powered cam chain tensioner is seen just below the cam lobe closest to the chain drive sprocket...so the chain is in a slack condition and the alignment jig fitting on the ends of the cams does not show that the cams are in time...over the course of checking many bikes, if the cam alignment jig fits as in the pictures above, then when the chain tension tool, "292", is installed and tensioned to "3 clicks" it ALWAYS reveals that the cams are out of time and need to be moved.
Feel free to PM me so I can help you with this if you would like.
Sorry to be a "buttinsky" but it looked like you had confusion with the "B" end of the alternator rotor alignment use (or not to use it) and now the pics with only partial tools installed to properly put the valve train in position to check cam alignment.
Looks like put hardly any grease where the gator fits so not surprised you got water in there. This is why I do my own maintenance