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Hillclimb#42:

--- Quote from: tobys 2 strokes on September 17, 2008, 04:45:58 PM ---
--- Quote from: Hillclimb#42 on September 17, 2008, 02:48:15 PM ---I wound up with a 86 rear wheel on accident. A big thanks goes out to Ebay. Really I am working on a kdx and was looking to go to a disc rear brake and wound up getting a drum style wheel from an 86. Its a nice wheel with some scratches and rusty spokes. It has a tire on it thats wore out but the tube still has air.
  Sorry don't know anything about interchangeability, obviously. :-P

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Its not an 86 if it has a drum brake. That was one of the selling factors when I bought my brand new 86 it was the first yr. to have front and rear disc brakes liquid cooled powervalved and great suspension. I went from an 81 KDX 420 to an 86 kx 500 and thought I was in heaven.

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 My bad again, (used to my bikes swapping wheels 250/500) its a 86 250 wheel. At least that was what I found out later. That seems wierd though. Would the 250 wheel be drum and a 500 wheel be disc first? Also used to the 500's taking a bit of a backseat in developement. Or what was the last year of the 250 drums? Sorry hijacking thread, I guess. Just trying to find out what wheel this is, so I don't burn anyone, when I sell it.

don46:

--- Quote from: Hillclimb#42 on September 18, 2008, 09:22:40 AM ---
--- Quote from: tobys 2 strokes on September 17, 2008, 04:45:58 PM ---
--- Quote from: Hillclimb#42 on September 17, 2008, 02:48:15 PM ---I wound up with a 86 rear wheel on accident. A big thanks goes out to Ebay. Really I am working on a kdx and was looking to go to a disc rear brake and wound up getting a drum style wheel from an 86. Its a nice wheel with some scratches and rusty spokes. It has a tire on it thats wore out but the tube still has air.
  Sorry don't know anything about interchangeability, obviously. :-P

--- End quote ---

Its not an 86 if it has a drum brake. That was one of the selling factors when I bought my brand new 86 it was the first yr. to have front and rear disc brakes liquid cooled powervalved and great suspension. I went from an 81 KDX 420 to an 86 kx 500 and thought I was in heaven.

--- End quote ---

 My bad again, (used to my bikes swapping wheels 250/500) its a 86 250 wheel. At least that was what I found out later. That seems wierd though. Would the 250 wheel be drum and a 500 wheel be disc first? Also used to the 500's taking a bit of a backseat in developement. Or what was the last year of the 250 drums? Sorry hijacking thread, I guess. Just trying to find out what wheel this is, so I don't burn anyone, when I sell it.

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Don't know what wheel you have, but in 86 all the big KX's had disc brakes front and rear. 85 was the last year for rear drum brakes on the kx"s

Icerider:
I'm looking for a 86-88 flywheel and cdi if you want to sell your old parts?

kwakman:
ive been researching which later model parts fit the 86 for about 3 yrs now.86 -89 ignitions are the same.you can use a later setup but you have to use all the components, cdi, stator and f'wheel.as for pistons, the later 2 ring works fine, with just a slight drop in compression as it isnt domed like 86 piston.if you ever need an exhaust you can run fmf from later models if you use your imagination when mounting it, but they fit and run well.i am thinking on the clutch side it might be possible to transplant the 87on clutch as a whole to alleviate the scarcety of parts.the 86 clutch runs a 5 spring/bolt arrangement and the later ones are 6.HTH.

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