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So in my attempt to keep my bike standard  :grin: :grin: I decided to do the head stoke bearings all wnet fairly easily and actully got it done s lot quicker than I thought

I changed the top and bottom yokes to ones I painted black and thought fook it Ill  put on a black headlight and a set of Satin black clock surrounds - standard all the way  :happy1: :happy1:

Del nice work
How easy were they to take off .
I was thinking of doing mine ,but was a bit unsure of how .and it the forks needed anything to keep them true ,while the yoke holding were of the bike

It was fairly easy especially as I had spare set of yokes -

Bottom bearing was the 3 piece one and I used a dremel with a cutting disc to cut a groove (not all the way through) and used a cold chisel to get it off the stem - this took about 10 mins in all - the seat in the bottom of the frame neck I did something the same with the dremel and then used a heavy drift located on the lip and chapped with a hammer to get it out

Top bearing a lot easier as just the bearing seat to remove and a drift in the lip - chap with a hammer and out it came

refit - top bearing seat - I did the 12 6 3 9 method to get it located with a light panel hammer and once lever with the neck I then used the old seat to drive the seat home

refit bottom bearing seat - same as above

getting the bearing onto the stem - I put a long 1/2 extension into the vice and the bottom yoke sat well on and using the old bearing I worked the new bearing onto the stem - I used a but of heavy steel bar as a drift and hit this with a hammer working the 12 6 3 9 method again to get it to seat

I recommend greasing the bearings before hand and getting a new bottom seal for the bottom yoke as I destroyed mine getting the old one off (Part Number Steering Stem Lower Seal 51644-12C00)

I had the forks off the yokes so was a lot lighter to work with - I just made sure they sat even when refitted and ran the spindle in and out a few times to make sure everything IMO was sitting as it should be

Hi del
Thank you for this valuable information  on doing this job  it will help me cheers  :onya:

Looks so much better in black! Nice one!

so stock, youve stuck to the book. so shiny. great work, love it. lookin good.

Very nice Del, I've done exactly the same myself with clocks and headlight :onya:

If you wanted Black Horns :) there are some on 'wish' for £4 at the mo, I've ordered some myself so will post on here once I have them.

Cheers
Red