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I'm going to try to take a lot of pictures of the process of rebuilding the EX. With a digital camera, I never have to buy film, or have it developed, so there's no excuse for not documenting it. Except laziness and forgetfulness.

In this first photo, the EX gazes unsuspectingly at its new home.

Shocked, the EX gapes at its dismembered self! What has the crazy man done now?

I promise I'll get it together to write down the details, but I removed all the plastic, gas tank, the fairing bracket, handlebars/risers, headlight, battery, mufflers, front sprocket cover, rear fender (gonna get an elimination kit), all without looking in the manual (Clymer). I referred to the manual to remove the rear wheel. I also took off the (IMO) extremely stupid bungee hooks and the hardest thing I did, the "helmet locks" that I never figured out how to use.. Took about three hours for it all - a half hour for the helmet hooks. I promise to give some details and take some good pix of the naked EX.

Today I took off the headers, the swingarm, the shock, front wheel, forks/fender/steering stem, and a couple of other small things. About all I have left to do is the radiator and the motor. Here's some more pix.

From the front before I took off the wheel and forks.

This is me getting a "little sun" while I work on the EX....yep, a little sun...oh yeah.

I took the carbs off, then the cables. The manual said cables, then carbs, but this was easier for me.

Another view - BTW I have these custom stands available for not much more than the "fancy" ones the racers use.

There is really not much to a motorcycle. Note the stand.

Parts, parts, parts.

What I learned today was that it's important to pay attention to whether the manual says "loosen" or "remove", and that it makes a difference sometimes in what order one removes and/or loosens things.

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