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Weak front brake

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blueoval:
Thanks everyone for the responses!   Appreciate it as always.   

cr37:
I used a CR front brake on my AF and made a big inprovent and was fairly cheap, all you need to change is use the KX caliper carrier

Polar-Bus:
I've owned 5 KX's over the past 22 years, and every dam one of em' had the imfamous KX front "sponge brakes". I've tried different fluids, bleed methods, nothing that made any substantial difference. Like Hughes pointed out, converting to a CR style hose routing seems to be the ticket, however i've never actually ridden a KX with this mod. I've just gotten used to the KX sponge brakes. When I went railing into my first high speed berm on my brand new '07 YZ450F I hit the front brake, and got catapaulted 40 feet right over the handlebars (wasn't quite ready for that level of new YZ mucho stopping power !!!..    :-o

greencannon:
replace stock line with quality aftermarket steel braided one, get a quality aftermarket rotor, quality aftermarket brake pads.
Disconnet caliper from fork and hold it up higher  than the master cylinder ( attach to garage ceiling with wire, string, ect)
Get Mity-Vac pump and bleed the hell out of it...
My front brakes are beautiful now, and still predictable...unlikle the "throw me over the bars CR style" brakes

barryadam:

--- Quote from: greencannon on February 26, 2010, 04:20:06 AM ---replace stock line with quality aftermarket steel braided one, get a quality aftermarket rotor, quality aftermarket brake pads.
Disconnet caliper from fork and hold it up higher  than the master cylinder ( attach to garage ceiling with wire, string, ect)
Get Mity-Vac pump and bleed the hell out of it...
My front brakes are beautiful now, and still predictable...unlikle the "throw me over the bars CR style" brakes


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+1

PM me.  I've got your braided line.
I went with an oversize Braking wave rotor / stock calipers.  Works great.  I got it a long time ago on Fleabay.  Have seen a few since.

Barry

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