Maintenance & Technical > KX500 Original

Took bike apart and found a few things

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Rd:
That k5 will be looking sweet after the paint and new plastic. Can't wait to see the pics.

95formula847:
I hope so! Ill get pics up this week after its done.

95formula847:
I ordered the bearings and so on. Also got new steel sprockets front and back. 14 and 49 is what I got as I have read on here thats a good setup. Also got a new DID 114 link chain.... hope thats the right amount of links.

And lastly I bought all new rubber mounts for the exhaust and the correct hardware so that I shouldnt have a problem with loose exhaust anymore.

snoopjonnyjon:
I've found the bearings can be purchased much cheaper one-at-a-time from a bearing supply shop, rather than getting the kits at a motorcycle shop. This only works if the bearing you need is good enough that you can still read the part number off the bearing. I needed some bearings from my 500 rebuild, and noticed they appeared to just be a standard Koyo bearing, and the part number was visible. I went down to the local "Bearing & Transmission" and got the new bearings for less than 1/4 of the price of getting the same bearing from Kawasaki. The convenience of having them in a kit is nice though.

Goat:

--- Quote from: snoopjonnyjon on April 20, 2010, 02:05:49 AM ---I've found the bearings can be purchased much cheaper one-at-a-time from a bearing supply shop, rather than getting the kits at a motorcycle shop. This only works if the bearing you need is good enough that you can still read the part number off the bearing. I needed some bearings from my 500 rebuild, and noticed they appeared to just be a standard Koyo bearing, and the part number was visible. I went down to the local "Bearing & Transmission" and got the new bearings for less than 1/4 of the price of getting the same bearing from Kawasaki. The convenience of having them in a kit is nice though.

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Only problem with going that route is you have to make sure they know what they are talking about and make sure you get high speed bearings. If you use standard bearings they will be destroyed in no time. Been there done that. Many years ago when I was just starting to learn how to rebuild bikes. That was 17 years ago :P

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