Maintenance & Technical > KX500 Original
Whats the best way to start the 5 hundie ?
BDI:
The flywheel can spin and sheer the key and still seem tight. Make sure you use the right puller that screws in the center of the fly wheel. If you use a claw puller you can and will ruin the flywheel by either bending it or streching the rivits that attach the flywheel hub to the flywheel. P.S. the puller has left handed threads.
kxdel:
IT'S ALIVE, IT'S ALIVE, IT'S FINALLY ALIVE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! After about 80 miles of driving today locating tools and parts, the beast started. It was a sheared flywheel key after all. I bought 3 keys from 1 bike shop and a puller from another 40 miles east. I had 5 different bike shops on the phone and visited 3 before I was done. So a maiden voyage around the house at 35? and raining and twice down the street all in the dark was enough for me. This bike is going to be a handful, but I'm up for the challenge. It only took a couple of 250 like kicks and then 1 500 kick all with the choke off before it started. So hopefully no more sore foot and mass quantities of profanity trying to get it started. I am greatful for all of the input so keep up the good work. Thanks, Dan
p.s. if anyone needs a flywheel puller just let me know.
BDI:
It's a good fealing isn't it. That flywheel puller fits so many bikes It's not even funny. I bought mine when I was 14, That was twenty years ago and I still use it all the time. I hope you torqed it to spec and put some thread lock on the nut they can come loose and destroy the crank.
kxdel:
It's torqued to spec but no threadlock. Should I use red or blue? There didn't seem to be any on it when it came apart, but I can put some on now. While I was out today I also bought a new bike stand that gets the bike up about 3 feet high and makes it a whole lot easier to work on. It gets rather old sitting on the garage floor or laying on my side to work on these things. Sitting in a kitchen chair and looking eye to eye with the crankshaft is a wonderful thing. :-D
BDI:
If it's torqued to spec you should be fine. I put thread lock out of paranoia :| a drop of red is cheap insurance but probably overkill.
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