I thought I had started a thread on this but I can't seem to find it so I figure I'll start it now.
I bought this bike in November of 2015 and was hoping to get it on the road in a timely fashion but unfortunately between work and life its been taking a bit longer than normal. In the time I have owned it it has gone through a lot of updates and been cleaned up a lot.
It is still a work in progress and recently I discovered that the swing arm was lengthened by at least 3-3.5" so that is the current battle in the bike.
Day 1 of bike being home:
Cut the frame and pulled the valve cover as this thing was being held on by gobs of orange rtv and was leaking everywhere. Also discovered a few tappet nuts were missing and fixed that all up.
Pulled off the ugly exhaust that the bike came with (I have a 4-1 replacing this now)
Pulled the stock bars and put some renthal ultra lows on
Not sure what the purpose of this was but it really makes the back of this bike look horrible
Discovered with the help of some awesome forum members the swing was extended by 3-3.5" and following this found everything related to the rear brake drum setup was also extended. With this extra 3-3.5" of extension putting this bike onto its center stand was a living miserable of a suck job to the point I hurt my back the first time.
New wiring harness attached and needing tidied up.
Swing arm yanked out and cut that atrocious weld job off the back of the bike
Current state of bike.. Front forks have been cleaned and painted black removing the horrible blue (fork dust covers to be installed later). Hoping once I replace the swing arm and all hardware that I will then continue on with the wiring and getting the bike running. At this point I'm not expecting this to happen till probably spring and be able to ride for next season.