Maintenance & Technical > KX500 Original
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Friar-Tuck:
There is alot of info in this user gallery pgs. 1-30 :wink:
http://www.kxriders.com/coppermine/displayimage.php?album=259&pos=0
And Here, http://s69.photobucket.com/home/Friar-Tuck/index
:-D \o/
greencannon:
Be sure to thoroughly wash your new cylinder and re-oil everything before assembly. I like to use plenty of yamalube R in my cylinder and piston, rings, powervalves, ect when assembling a top end. I like to use premix because it will burn off and not stick around and gum up like some assembly lubes.
everybody will have there preference on what they use. just be sure not to overlook that so you have a happy cylinder and top end
littlewing78:
IT'S ALIVE!!!!
Okay I got it all back together and its running like a champ...in 1st and 2nd gear. I got something together wrong. It wont shift higher than 2nd gear. I didn't take any of the transmission parts of gear shift parts out when I had it apart. The only thing I can think of is the clothes pin looking spring that sits just below and to the rear of the clutch basket. That fell out by accident while I had it apart. I wasn't sure of how it went back in. I am hoping that is the problem.
I bought clutch plates but didn't replace them yet. I wanted to fix one problem at a time so I could figure out what happened to start with.
There is also a little knocking going on. I am guessing that has to do with my piston / head clearance.
Very excited that is is actually running though since this is my first attempt at working on a bike.
delphipro5:
Yikes that looked bad! Hope that dont happen to me! :cry: Glad to hear it's running sort of... There are many sites to referance the part blow-ups for this bike, I went to service honda and printed every blow-up they had for my model and made a binder with them. Now I have the whole bike on paper. Makes it VERY easy to see WHAT goes WHERE and HOW it goes in! Just putting one small part in backwards or upsidedown can be catastrophic in an engine build. BE CAREFULL :wink: Keep us informed on how it goes.
littlewing78:
I was right about the spring. It popped out while I had it torn down and I put put it back in the right way but it must have popped off again while I was putting it back together. Its in the right way now and every thing is working fine.
Just has that knocking sound that worries me. Is that possibly something that will go away with break in?
This is the spring I was talking about that was in wrong.
Here's the bike all back together.
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