Your " right side" looks great..my bevel gear cover has a moderate scuff mark that I was hoping to get polished out. ..Remember from last year that matching up the clutch cover bolts was a little...challenging.? Hoping to find a pair of undamaged fork covers...mine have been bent, then bent back. Not that noticeable...but I notice...thx again
On the other side, I took off the front sprocket cover. Makes it much easier to polish it and the part of the left engine case cover. Watch out for over-torquing those fasteners when you put it back on.
The hex screws are different lengths. To keep them from getting mixed up I drew an outline of the cover on a piece of cardboard and shoved the screws through at the appropriate places.
Before you remove the gearshift lever, use a punch to make a mark you can use to place it correctly when you reattach it. That also got a new rubber part. The old one was hard as a rock. I added some split nylon mesh wiring protector to the wiring that runs from behind the sprocket cover up to the side cover.?
One thing I discovered years ago when I pulled the carbs and gave them a thorough cleaning was that the rubber connectors on the engine side rot on the inside even though they look might look fine on the outside. They're subjected to the engine heat and fuel which cause them to deteriorate. The rubber sleeves on the air box side last longer.
By the way, my go-to rubber restoring fluid is Nextzett Gummipflegestift (rubber care stick), a liquid substance that can be applied with a brush or Q-tip after you remove the foam applicator cap, which gets crudded up the first time you use it.
Tom Marckese