Great help all ... !
Sheldon,
I'll definately replace the bearing balls and re-examine the cups and cones to see if they look good where the balls track, if I remember correctly there was a nice polished area and the pitting was not necessarily in that portion.
I'm not trying to win any races (no pun intended) and my rides are pretty close to home so they'll probably be just fine.
I'll order a couple of 13mm and one 15mm Park, cone wrenches to get the job done.
Thank You All for your help!
p.s. Well Biked, I knew that this was a good bike when I bought it, but really had no idea until I started doing some research in the past few days that it was so greatly admired.
This particular bike is the 18" frame (rather than the standard 19"), I bought the smaller frame because I wanted to ride remote trails that are anything but straight. I'll definately keep it original or at least save the parts as you suggest. Thanks
Dave