Maintenance & Technical > KX500 Original
Lack of use/what to do.
Danger4u2:
After cleaning the carb, tank, petcock, air box, new air filter and fresh mixed gas
there are a few things over looked. Repack the muffler. Check the reed cage.
I'm using the stock reeds and cage on this bike. I do have a reed spacer, it's about
3/8 of an inch. Upon inspection of my reeds I found one to have a small chip on the
corner. I'll get a picture in a few day before I put everything back together.
The chip is an issue but it still seals. I plan to get the bike running with it.
After that I have 2, I've heard, hard to find V Force Delta 2 reed cages
made by Moto Tassinari. I'm not up on the how and why of a reed spacer
and the V Force cage, I'll have to go through some of the old threads to check it out.
Stock cage on the left.
dave916:
D'ont think using the reed spacer would do any harm / even though the vf2 may not block the boost port like other reeds
89on motor had a way lower crankcase volume than the 87/88 motors that the main reason i think the reed spacer on 89on motor should work good
Even with a reed spacer the 89on motor will still not be near the case volume of the 87/88 motor
Danger4u2:
Hey Dave thanks for the insight.
Feel free to chip in here, I'm not to old to learn something new.
We have, on kxriders, quite a bit about reed spacers but I also found surfing around
on dirtriders.com... an Eric Gorr post,
This is what a reed spacer does;
1) Increase the volume in the crankcase
2) Lengthen the intake tract
3) Lengthen the distance from the piston face to the reed tips
http://dirtrider.net/forums3/threads/reed-spacers-and-the-two-stroke.57662/
sandblaster:
So you have the holy grail of reeds just laying around???? :lol:
I couldn't find my post on here about getting the most out of it but here is a link to the Motorrad method
http://www.oem-cycle.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=5&t=484#p1945
Danger4u2:
Great write up, thanks for the link. I knew the ears had to be cut off but after you
finished, your work looks like it came from the factory.
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