Maintenance & Technical > KX500 Original
Mount an hour meter
smithpa68:
Where do you guys mount an hour meter on your 500s? I bought a 2001 KX 500. The guy said it had 8 or 9 "rides" on it from a full motor rebuild. I am not sure if a ride was an all day event or an hour or two at the moto track. I do know the engine builder so I am not questioning that.. but I want to mount an hour meter to keep track of my time on it. I am spoiled by my KTM's build in hour meter in the odometer. :-)
What's the guideline on how many hours before a piston and ring on these bikes? I am not a desert/dune rider. Just a slow guy on vet/GP type MX tracks and trail rides. Saw a few posts about it but what's the book say? (Don't have one yet)
Motoroost1:
I mounted my hour meter on the side of the frame just ahead of the fuel tank . Fits perfect without drilling any holes and there have been zero issues with it . Easy to read as well .
smithpa68:
How did you mount it? Is there already some sort of bolt there you can reuse?
Motoroost1:
The back of the hour meter had adhesive tape on it . So I just literally stuck it on to the CDI unit . As a safeguard , I wrapped a zip tie around the hour meter and the CDI unit . So far , the adhesive tape has worked perfectly and it has not moved one little bit .
smithpa68:
Cool. Thanks.
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