Swingarm bearing and collar

[Dritto]

Hi, I'm now returning to my build after 3 months, and have one question.

Is this collar and bolt supposed to be this dirty? The bearings inside are not 100% smooth, seems to be abit dirt on them. Why does it look like this, when the bike only has 100hours on it?
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[CJM]

Dirt and water got in and made a small mess. Me, I replace the bearings the bushings and bolt on all my quads when I get them and I take the bolt out and grease it up every few months.

For the money and since you got it apart Id just replace it all.

[400man]

your lucky.......I just recently had to use a sawzall and small air grinder with a cut-off wheel and cut my swingarm bolt in 4 places to remove the swingarm. the bolt was seized up in the collars so bad a sledge hamar wouldn't even drive it out. its a 03 that's all stock, and I would guess it still had the original swingarm bearings in it, it was just rusty little bb's that came out where the needle bearings were.