Anyone who's ever taken apart and Banshee knows what a job it is to remove the swingarm bolt.
The bolt required some serious applications of heat and a BFH to get loose and probably 1/2 the total teardown time to remove it and free the swingarm. Once I got the swingarm off, it wasn't difficult to see why. The left side bearing had pretty much welded itself to the swingarm with rust and the internal bushing was just as bad.
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The bolt required some serious applications of heat and a BFH to get loose and probably 1/2 the total teardown time to remove it and free the swingarm. Once I got the swingarm off, it wasn't difficult to see why. The left side bearing had pretty much welded itself to the swingarm with rust and the internal bushing was just as bad.