Case splitting

A few posts back Bodger took "Vicky's" lower half (the motor, the motor) over to SOS Motorcycles to have Stu split the cases as the appropriate tools weren't available. Just to remind you of what the lower half looked like before, take a peek here:

Stu had to take quite a while to get these blighters apart. But it wasn't the actual separating of them, it was the removing of the clutch hub thingy that took a while. Seems that with an extractor on it it didn't want to budge, so a great deal of heat was put on to help it break loose. So with the help of the heat and a good wallop with a rawhide mallet, it came off and then with a couple of thumps with the mallet, the cases split apart to reveal their secrets. And now, have a butchers at the inside of the cases after being split:

Not a pretty sight is it?!? This boys and girls is the result of hamfisted neglect of the first order. The pictures you see were taken using a flash so this tends to "lighten" things up a wee bit and puts things in a more favorable light, no puns intended at all. To see the halves in the flesh will really give a better idea of the total disregard for even basic maintenance concepts. But this like all else on this poor creature will be overcome. At least now there's better access to the sludge trap which I am now 100% certain will need to be opened up and thoroughly cleaned out, if for nothing else than peace of mind. Anyways, enough editorializing, with the cases now split and the sludge trap now accessible, the bearings and seals are accessibas well and will definitely be replaced. By the time Bodger has this completed and on the road sometime in the next century, it will be for all intents and purposes, a brand new machine with 0 miles on the speedo, when I get that as well. Hopefully it'll go together a lot better than it came apart with no complications. Until then............