I didn’t have to repair the clutch mechanism itself, thank goodness.

The sidecase / clutch cover was of course horrendously filthy. I guess it had last been cleaned around 1990.

I scraped out the worst, then got to cleaning the rest with a brush, some mineral turps, a rag, and plenty of patience.

I left the sidecover with some patina, and didn’t go down the highly polished route which would have ended in tears and frustration.

The actuating rod was bent a little, so I gave it a few whacks with a hammer to straighten it out.

I bought a set of new bolts because 2 were missing and the others were a random assortment. Turns out the missing bolts were actually broken off in the gearbox. So I bought an easy-out extractor (which worked surprisingly well).

Lastly, I cut the mirror mounts off the clutch lever, and polished up the alloy surface.

Foot pegs are weird things. Just little folding bits of metal with a slippery coating of rubber. Yep, that’s all that keeps your feet from dragging along the road.
Granted, you can get those metal ones with sharp teeth that rip your boots to pieces over time. But in my case, I inherited the 30 year old rubber ones that were made of rusty metal with a chrome finish. And a whole layer of gunk.

But lo, the wire brush was handy. After an hour they looked almost good enough to put back onto the frame, so that’s what I did.

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