westcoast swingarm

[tech954]

Got this in the mail today. Anyone with information please respond. I have only seen one of these in person before and that was a couple weeks ago. I have seen pics of them before and they are always white, did they come that way? I thought I was buying one for an 86 but it turns out its an 85 model from the brake stay mount. I bought this sight unseen. I don't mind that its for an 85, thats what im building anyway.

Its got a good sized dent you can see in the pic I will have to fix. Also, the two inserts are missing where the strut mounts, I am hoping the guy I bought it from can locate them, is there anywhere to order these new or anyone got a couple spares laying around? I will have to have them made if I cant locate any, are they made of steel or aluminum?

Should I refinish this in white like everyone else has? I was thinking chrome, most of my bike is going to be chrome except for the frame which is already powder coated white.

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Did some government work today and worked out every dent I could find in the swingarm, removed the needle bearings and its almost ready for finishing once I finish blasting it. It took me about 3 hours to work out the dents, I ended up pulling most of the dent out by the rear sprocket by welding a bolt inside the dent and using a piece of half inch flat stock as leverage. I had a hole in the flat stock and put a nut on the bolt and wrenched most of the dent out. I filled the rest of the dent with short welds to keep the heat down. Heres a couple more pics of the work in progress.

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[AirManCam]

Get it powdercoated white with blue stickers, thats how they came from the factory...you know where I can get a couple westcoast stickers from?

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I am making the decals in about 2 weeks. I have heard that they had the 2 on the sides and also a smaller version on the rear of the swingarm, is this correct?

[AirManCam]

From the ones I've seen on the letters are in a really cool cursive print. Get some pics of the ones I might get some from ya!

[Black Sheep]

Originally posted by AirManCam
Get it powdercoated white with blue stickers, thats how they came from the factory


they also came with Red stickers. if i had a scanner i'd scan pictures so the stickers could be duplicated. they wern't always in cursive

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I was wondering about that, when I took off some of the paint I was finding red decals and they were not in cursive print.