Swingarm bearings

[treedragon]

I just recently I replaced my swingarm bearings, was not without it's problems I might add but at least the needle rollers waterfalled out in a relatively orderly manner............. eventually.
Fortunately enough my motorcycle engineer friend had some replacement bits (bolt, bearings, sleeve), amongst his many boxes of goodies stashed under the house - several hours of searching and the very last box!!

Transplant went okay but I now find a slightly different riding style is called for due to certain changes in the............... fluidity of movement shall we say.
As ever it is/was fine flicking through the corners though, and indeed the aforementioned ability (persued with degrees of forceful aggression as there are rather a lot of corners to get anywhere from here), may have aggravated the need to upgrade and replace an assortment of bits somewhat sooner than the more moderately inclined previous owner might have done  8)

Having greenish inclinations, (especially on St Patricks day), I am ever watchful for a chance to recycle and I was wondering about the sleeve, shame about the bolt but........

It can be viewed  at -  http://www.martin-rusholme.co.nz/index_xz550_mechanical.html
there might even be a maintanence moral somewhere in there  ;D  ;D

[macroars]

I have to replace mine bearings to, but fear that the one I have looks like the one shown here.

The trouble is that theese seems hard to find at least on ebay.

Does anyone know whether bearings from other bikes can be used?

[treedragon]

macroars

Maybe a quick prayer to the God of Mechanic might be in order, that yours not be this bad............
I had to cut mine out as a last resort. It was when G of M got his due of knuckle blood that convinced me a cut-off saw was the only solution.

In terms of riding it went downhill real fast towards the end after a particularly vigorous ride, never could quite understand the "clunk" under certain circumstances, it was the swingarm hitting the mufflers I think  ::)