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Kickstarter Issues

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demographic:

--- Quote from: Rick ---The contact point where the aluminum kicker hits the steel pivot causes wear down over time, allowing your kicker to turn past 90 degrees.  Remove the assembly from the bike.  Using a welder (I have used both wire feed and stick), add a little material to the contact point on the steel pivot piece.  If your welding skills are lacking, it is best to disassemble the two parts, but this can be done while assemble as well (if a wire feed is used).  You will add too much material at first, but just use a grinder or dremel to clean up the weld down untilt he kicker is at 90 degrees.  If your aluminum hole is out of round, a bushing is the best fix, but if you just have contact point wear, fire up the welder and save yourself $100.

Rick
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If you can get hold of Hard Facing welding rods (they often contain Tungsten or cobalt and get used on the teeth on digger buckets) you will find that they put down very wear resistant metal over normal steel.

Rick:
Gabe,

Never really timed myself on the track, as I am not a motocrosser, so have nevery really learned how to jump.  I did find that my corner speed and attack speed from corner to corner was a lot faster than folks who could out jump me all day.  As a result, I could hang with the big jumpers by just attacking the corners.  Also, the weekend I was there, the mud was terrible, so ruts developed quickly.  I spent a lot of time just practicing riding ruts in various sections of the track, as I am sure ruts will develop in any muliple loop race in the trees.

Finally, yes, the January 2nd event is at the park.

Rick

teamgreen500:
EVRYTIME you wash your bike you should LUBE your pivots and cables...etc. I use WD40 right after I clean the bike and then I hit various lube points with the necessary service lubes.

I've never had the wearing out issue; however, I've snapped a few of the old design kickers.

Happy New Year and Good Fortune to all of you.

Manny

kawdude:

--- Quote from: hughes ---Mine had the same problem. Just bought a new one for 110.00. What happened to mine was the aluminum kick stater it self was worn where it makes contact with the steel collar that mounts the assembly to the shaft on on the engine(not where the c-clip mounts the kick starter to the steel collar). When you pull the kick start out for starting the kick start and the steel collar make contact(built in kick start stop right behind the tension set screw.). Take a look at yours and see.
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$110   :shock:
Was this bought in the US?

hughes:
Yes it was. Local Kawasaki Dealer here in GA. I may be alittle off on that price but I don't think I paid much more than thw 110.00

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