KX Riders
Maintenance & Technical => KX250 / KX125 => Topic started by: Limbo on May 29, 2017, 01:14:36 AM
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Hello,
i have just introduced myself in other topic. But need to write that im from Polan so my language could be difficult to read :)
I had an opportunity to buy bike for really cheap but without any information about the condition of the moto and... neverthenless i decided to buy this .... KX
so this is a really old one KX and when they just droped the bike from a bus i realized that this is a pieace of crap (just on the first look)
I just put the money to the seller pocket and put the bike to my garage.
I live in a small villege near a small city so in any free time i have a chance to ride on bike and work on it in my garage.
I will upload the pictures very soon just to show you how this bike looks on the begining.
what was the condition:
1. both fenders demaged and just from tottally differend bike (front from KTM, back i think UFO or something)
2. side plastics deamged
3. no brakes on the front (demaged pump and no break pads)
4. almost 0 brakes on the back
5. engine starts every kick but reaction on the gas was really poor, engine can't start to have a higher RPM
7. lot of leaks of oil (on gear schifter and clutch gasket
8. front rack ... almost sharp
so the bike was pretty crap, i speend already lot of hours just to give another life to this bike and it finally works fine!
I have reapired almost whole technical issues so breaks are finally works, engine works propertly with lot of torque (beacuse for me this is first bike ever, i feel really scary on in it.. i need to learn to drive right now)
I still have a lot of issues with this how this bike looks (beacuse of devastaed plastic parts and lots of another problem) so i hope that i will be able to find help here :)
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well I don't know of any places in Poland for plastics....but here in the USA, there's a couple places to get reproduction plastics....shipping costs could be expensive...
East Coast Vintage...
http://www.eastcoastvintagemx.com/store/c7/Kawasaki_Reproduction_Plastic.html
DC plastics...
http://www.dcvmx.com/xcart/home.php?cat=408
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thank you for reply,
parts from website which you mentioned costs a lot additionaly i will have to pay shipping cost -about 40 USD.( it is just to expesnive especialy when i will told you that bike costs me 400 USD) :D
right now i just thinking about replacing plastics form newest version of KX... the question is.. will this fits to my bike?
My gas tank looks awful so maybe im able to buy some parts from used kx from 90'-00' and replace gas tank, plastics.. did anyone tried that?
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here's a list of all the 125's made, so you can get an idea of how much/little work it'll be to convert different year plastics...
http://www.motodacross.com/kawasaki/125.html
you can use any year front fender no problem....the rest of it, you'll need to get creative, and do some modifying (cutting and fitting)...especially the side number plates.
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Hello,
i have questions i hope that you are able to help me here.
Yesterday i had a chance to ride a yamaha yz80 (just after piston replacing) and this bike rides totally different its more agressive just from the 0 rpm.
In my kx i need to wait until the power comes. Becuase of that i need to check few things (spark plug, carburateur and piston and cylinder)
My question is juz about this 3 elements.
1. what kind of spark plug shall i use?
2. how to tune my carburateur?
3. when i can buy piston
4. what about cylinder? i need to buy another one or maybe this one could be "repiaired" and additionaly is there nicasil inside?
thank you a lot for any help.
Kamil,