Maintenance & Technical > KX500 Original
Hi from Canada!
BigGreenMachine:
Haha! Got to love it...you bought a project bike.
It should scare you, make you see the Almighty and water your eyes. If it doesn't then assume something somewhere is not right.
A new filter, clean carb and new carb internals should be high on your to do list.
Keep in mind yours is an 86 and parts will be hard to find. My 85 Tecate trike is brutal to find good or new OEM parts for.
don46:
Not to burst your bubble, but I'm thinking thats an 83 or 84, the 85, 86 was liquid cooled and the 86 had front and rear disc brakes.
stewart:
1985 was watercooled my 1986 was water cooled with kips .the 1983 and 1984 were the air cooled kx 500s........1981 and 1982 was the 420s
booneylander:
Good to know guys, thanks for the info!
The guy I bought it from had no papers and he had just said it was an '86 - obviously he was mistaken... :-D
booneylander:
Hey all,
I got home tonight and found the VIN off the engine case, and matched it up in the chart here : http://www.kxriders.com/coppermine/displayimage.php?album=lastup&cat=0&pos=0
My VIN was KX500AE001203
So, looks like I've got an '83 !!
Which coincidentally is my birth year - creepy. At least now I know what bike to order parts for when I go in to the dealer.
So now I just have to match up the engine VIN to a frame VIN (which hopefully contains "...HT60..." (the only characters I could identify amongst the welding/grinding hacking of the frame). Then I can hopefully go get a title from the MTO so I can get a trail plate.
It's funny, on the track, I ride stuff like an '03 GSXR600 and an '05 ZX10R, bikes which you could eat off of, they're so clean, and which are always running perfectly and tuned just right for me. Now I hop onto this old clapped out POS bike and I'm having a ton of fun on it, I'm riding and parts are falling off and the controls and suspension are SOOO shoddy, and I'm smiling in my helmet ear to ear the whole time.
UPDATE: Finally found a decent picture of an '83 online and yes, my bike is most definetely an '83. Seems it was the only year for the gold wheels / gold swingarm.
So now the goal is for my bike to look as good as the one in the pic :P
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