Cheers Nick! Yeah, the parts washer is a bit posh, the downside is that access is limited to the times that no one else is around to witness...the pennilessness is thankfully buried deep in the past and so I was able to do a couple of more orders..

First off I couldn't lay my hands on the main shaft and countershaft bearings that are supposed to live in these round spaces in the centre of the picture. I later found them, but knowing that they had endured media blasting I assumed them ruined...even if not...why have the whole refurb process be founded on the only two critical bearings that were not replaced. I was able to paste the part numbers (#32 91022-KV3-003 & #33 91024-KV3-003) into US based parts warehouse Partzilla website to amazingly have a couple of OEM replacements pop up...to be honest - it appears there are actually 2 choices of bearings for the countershaft with the last numbers...003 or 004...I shamelessly ordered the only one available and will research the possible catastrophic difference between the two later as the engine rebuild is paused until the bearings get here.





In the meantime I unpacked the transmission. Cleaned, magnafluxed, racecut, new bearings.