Turned out to be like everything else up to this point, fairly easy. I knew I would have to lay the bike over on its side and let gravity do the work, and it was almost just as easy as that. I laid the bike over to it's right side, the left wouldn't do as I want to keep the shifter in place until I absolutely must remove it. Once the bike was on its side it was just a matter of some shaking and manipulating to start with.
It came down to only one impediment, the oil filter and its housing. A 12mm socket and some lefty loosey and it came right off. After a little bit of manipulating, mostly paying attention to the exhaust header studs, I only had to stand the frame back up and it was done.
I put the filter and housing back on, cleaned the block up a little bit and now its set off to the side of the garage. I'll come back to the motor later down the road. I need to do some reading on how I can turn the motor through a couple of rotations. The kick starter doesn't want to budge. Why is that? I feel like I have it in neutral, but whose to say? The shifter moves freely and I can feel the various detents for the gears...not sure what I'm up against here yet.
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