Maintenance & Technical > KX500 Original
Items prone to fail on the 500?
turtle22:
it would not hurt to have the shock rebuilt. ive have to do that on both my 500 that i desert race. they take a pretty good pounding out there. the seal head likes to leak after awhile.
Polar-Bus:
--- Quote from: shostang on May 27, 2009, 12:12:16 PM ---Does anyone have some sort of list of things that are known to fail on these bikes? . :-D
--- End quote ---
The rear tire knobbies?
Chains and sprockets ?
Your forearms? :)
Johnniespeed:
Pipe mounts
Pipe mounts
places where the pipe mounts attach too
Rear tires
knobs on rear tires
Did I mention pipe mounts and rear tires ?
turtle22:
oh and most important thing that is common to fall of; the rider(if not holding on tight) :lol:
barryadam:
The above posts list the first items to go. But on the KX500, EVERYTHING is a wear item. And I mean EVERYTHING. I've replaced a cracked airbox, Baja Designs dual sport stuff (horn, horn mount, metal headlight bracket, blinker relay, headlight wiring connection, headlight, etc.) all from wear, not crash damage. My rear license plate and rear led light both broke from the vibration! Renthal fatbars cracked (Ok, so those might have ben a manufacturing defect). The radiator screens fall off because the mounting holes in the radiator's aluminum flanges have enlarged so much. The tank/radiator shrouds crack from the vibration.
I've had my crank aligned and all new bearings in the motor, so it's not an engine maintenance root cause.
I don't seem to be distributing fasteners all over the landscape like other folks, and I have not been using Loctite.
Oh yeah, one of the "fail" items right up there with the pipe mounts is that the chain grinds it's way through the subframe leg.
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