FH - Forks, Steering Damper & Swinging Arm

 A few spare minutes found me progressing the build a bit further. Last night I ordered the engine parts from Draganfly; the pistons and big end shells have already arrived from the AOMCC Twin Spares chap. They look excellent:

You'll recall the swinging arm has solid bronze bushes in place of the standard metalastik bushes, so the first job is to fit an angled grease nipple pointed away from the FERC:

The swinging arm goes in easily and is bolted very loosely. It's held up with an old shock.

I've put the steering damper back in; the pin tapped in easily.

Now, I was careful to ask the painter to avoid grit blasting the oil tank, and he has indeed prepared that by hand. However, the fork sliders would have benefitted from blanking off as they are full of grit; I made this swab to clean them out:

Running paraffin down the slider in the cleaning bath I swabbed the grit out:

There's quite a bit - that was worth doing:

I cleaned the fork legs with 180 grit Scotchbrite - they are not very good:

I ordered a set of seals and new seal holders yesterday. At £115 a pair, it's worth buying a new set of hard-chromed stanchions as well.