Maintenance & Technical > KX500 Original

my 2001 rebuild

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ftc:
bought this bike in january, it had sat for a number of years but fired up and seemed to run fine.
scary power really, never rode a 500 before :-D
i probably paid a little over what its worth but oh well.
came with race tech suspension, scotts damper, stock and oversized tank, stock and pro circuit pipes and silencers/ spark arrestor, hand guards,
seems to be a pretty clean bike so far

ftc:
brought it home and ordered up some basic stuff-
new air filters- the one it had was starting to disintegrate
fresh packing for the silencer- it was probably never done, full of ooze
then i thought why not pull the pipe and clean it out as well right?
lets have a look inside the cylinder just to make sure its good right?
noooo....  i was so bummed!  wasn't planning to rebuild this thing right off the bat.

ftc:
hard to see from the last picture but off came the head and cylinder to send off for a replate.  the nicasil was bubbled up and flaked off on the intake side.
so off it went to millennium for a replate and new piston.

ftc:
now is as good a time as any to tear it apart further and re grease the linkage and just clean it up in general.

Foxx4Beaver:
Eh, you're better off going through the whole thing now, and get it over with....then you'll know what you have.

Looks like one I may have posted before in the KX500's thread.

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