Maintenance & Technical > KX500 Original
Piston experiment
wierdo:
have you checked the ring gap? motorrad had trouble with rings before, never assume new is perfect.
81cr450:
--- Quote from: sandblaster on May 18, 2013, 05:04:17 AM ---That's a bummer....
Even a cheap Digital Veneer Caliper can save you some grief...
--- End quote ---
DONT buy that particular mitutoyo caliper though, it doesnt shut off automatically. Mitutoyo is good stuff but you do want one that shuts itself off as you will space it & leave it on for days or months on end.
sandblaster:
Geese man, I'm trying to help the battery companies out :-D
81cr450:
My Boss borrow's mine & leaves it on, he'll be buying the batteries so what should I care. I just wish I would have thought about auto off, that exact tool doesnt have it, details details details
Sorry for the hijack, just one I wish I would have thought of
nirvanafan98:
I never checked ring gap . Sorry to say . Went off of the information my local shop told me . How this all started , I had a compression release installed . Bike ran great but was hard to start . So when Larry installed the compression release . I decide to rebuild the top end while it was apart . It's an 87 k 500 . Couldn't find a 87 piston . So I bought an 88 , 2 ring piston .There is 2 brown streaks on the cylinder wall , where the pin in the ring grooves are . Assume oil is getting past the rings is not why it runs like it did before. Now it smokes I think a little to much and runs like a car with a clogged catalytic converter . I think I wasted couple hundred dollars on the rebuild kit . The compression release works great . Have 3 bikes , my first 500 though . :-D
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