Maintenance & Technical > KX500 Original
Found a present after riding... broken exhaust mount tab
bunk:
--- Quote from: WRXBRUMBY on August 10, 2008, 05:15:45 PM ---Yours is 3.9 gal yeah?
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check this out... hopefully that helps.
http://www.kxriders.com/forums/index.php/topic,4546.0.html
As for the welding... yea taking off the cdi box would be a good idea. Thanks-
Johnniespeed:
Sorry no pics, spent the camera money on a new pipe. John
dsrtrider:
my pipe mount under tank broke years ago and still havent fixed it. also mounts that springs attach to on exhaust break constantly.
BDI:
I wish I had pictures of my KX500 frame to show, every Pipe mount was fully boxed. The upper sub frame mount had a piece of chrome moly tubing that rapped the stock sub frame mount and then had two triangle gussets. Every unfinished weld was finished, then of course the frame was powder coated. The frame had a real cool finished look to it and it was bomb proof. All the normal kx500 frame failers were aliminated. The only thing I never did that I wanted to do was weld prestamped tabs on the cradle for the skid plate to bolt derectly to. If I was to go through a Kx500 today I would do all of this to the frame without thinking twice about it. I would put it right there with putting air in the tires.
barryadam:
BDI, I DID add those tabs for the skid plate. It's a Works Connection plate with the side guards for the water pump, etc. I fabricated some tabs out of square tube notched to fit the frame rails, and cut them off at an angle to provide (4) strong "gusseted" tabs. I designed them so the plate is about 1/8" lower than the frame rails and a small rubber pad is used between the tabs and the plate. This gives a wee bit of rubber isolation for the skid plate (not much), and allows liquids to drain out between the frame and the plate. We don't see mud here like in other areas, so I don't get mud packing problems. The nuts are welded to the tabs.
Then everything went to the powdercoater. 8-)
That should have been designed in from the factory, IMHO. :mrgreen:
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