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With the better part of 3-5 days, and a great deal of help from ex in-law Nephews and his buddies, I FINALLY got my remaining parts & stuff out of storage, got HD shelves up, and most of the parts sorted on bike-specific shelves. Only trouble is now having to move bikes to get at stuff but I'm working on it. I'm SO glad to have everything back home and soon start on stuff like the little G5 100. In the upper left of the pic you can see part of the bare frame, and the bubble wrapped parts that are re-chromed, painted or powder coated. on the top shelf 

What isn't visable is the rolling chassis of the '76 RD400. Motor is out for a(nother) rebuild, top & bottom end. What also can't be seen is a YSR-50 sitting perpendicular to the rest of the bikes aginst the front wall, next to the dryer. The rest are the '84 RZ, '74 RD Cafe, '69 HS1, '75 RD125, Z1000 and FZ07.  Even figured out room for the lawn mower and was able to have enough on the L side of the garage for Kevin's car!

   Finally, 2 years after the $2000+ plus RD400 rebuild debacle, I decided we'd go ahead and rebuild the top end of my '76.  I only got to ride it 15 miles before it seized and the entire ordeal made me too depressed to think about rebuilding again until now.  Continued health issues also made it difficult to ride at all, but I miss that bike.  My FZ07, while a nice, light bike, just isn't the same as my beloved RD400!

  Going through what I could find on the current forum, I saw a note from SoCal250 about using TZ750 bearings, part no. 93110-216E1-00, which appear to be available.  I saw that the old Kawi bearings some used were NLA.  I also saw in Supertune's "Tip of the Day" in the Vendor section a post about Crank rebuilding in which he talked about a ProX bearing replacing the OEM ones, but didn't specify a part number.

   We have old notes about WiseCo bearings, I think the part no. was B1021 (something like that).  Another note was a vague reference to some using an available ATV bearing (model unknown) although that might be the same as SoCal referenced in his post with a Kawi Watercraft one NLA.

   I need to know what the best one available is and what to use.  What have you all been using lately, since some are NLA?

       Thanks in advance for your assistance!

Look what I just brought home this afternoon.  Really good original condition, 4300 miles.  I already rode it up & down the block a couple of times.  Weak drum brakes but I'll adapt!