OK guys I got a question.
Reffiting the drive shaft. I worked it around and got splines lined up...and pushed it in by hand until it sorta popped into place. It slide in nice and smooth and i gave it a couple more pushes just to be sure it was home.
I pulled it pretty hard w greasy fingers and it wouldnt come out easily.
Is this as far in as it should go? Please see pic. this is how I left it when reassembled.
It's kind of hard to tell from that pic, but my experience is that the swing arm needs to be supported at approximately operating angle when removing or installing the driveshaft. Looks like you're working with it bottomed out, with the rear end hanging down as far as it will go. First, there's a big rubber boot at the front end of the swingarm that you want to protect. Second, in my experience the driveshaft won't seat properly at that angle. Maybe I'm wrong, but it sure didn't for me.
What I do is this: support the swingarm from the rear so it's at operating angle, then tap the driveshaft in with a wood block until you know it's seated. How do you know it's seated? There's about 5/8 inch play between the position where it first makes contact and the position where it's fully seated. You can push it in there and it will seem to catch but if you wiggle it around or put a crescent wrench on the exposed end of the DS and pry a little against the end of the swingarm (with rags places appropriately to protect the surfaces), it will drop right out. That means it's not seated. It should be seated such that you need to pry with considerable force to get it out again.
It I may say something about the spline greasing -- looks like slathered it on there. With good moly paste, it's not about the quantity but about the application. Most of the stuff on those splines is going to get slung off to interior walls of the final drive as soon as you take your first ride, which just means more work for you next time you do the spline lube because you're going to have to take the time to wipe and clean all that gunk out of there.
So with the final drive it's kind of just wasted material and time. Good moly paste kind of binds with the surface of the metal to provide a thin layer of protection -- that's what the moly powder in the paste is for. With the transmission splines you do not want to slather like that because when it slings off it will get on the clutch disk and grease the friction surface which will affect the operation of the clutch.
I think there are videos and articles on how to properly lube splines -- I use a toothbrush, mush a small quantity of paste on the mating surfaces of the splines only and wipe off the rest.
That's a great brick you have there -- I like the way you stripped all the paint off the forks...looks nice, never seen that done before, most people myself included just repaint them with some satin black rattle can stuff from Home Depot.
I'm sure if I said anything wrong about the driveshaft someone else will correct me...
Good luck!