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Maintenance & Technical => KX500 Original => Topic started by: AKWieland on June 16, 2020, 08:11:50 AM

Title: 87 KX500 fork top caps
Post by: AKWieland on June 16, 2020, 08:11:50 AM

hey folks,
I'm about 2/3 of the way through my restoration of an 87 KX500. Went to rebuild the forks last night. The top caps on the fork were a little stripped. But the caps are apparently seized into the tubes. I can get them out but it would destroy the caps. I wanted to buy new caps anyway (due to the originals being stripped). I cannot find them anywhere. Anybody have any leads?
Thanks,
Andrew

Title: Re: 87 KX500 fork top caps
Post by: KXDINO on June 16, 2020, 07:17:58 PM

Is the thread damage or were the spanner goes on ? if it rounded off from a spanner we have had alloy nuts tig welded on after you grind the old section off, some dirt bikes have alloy nuts on there front axels , most new models mx bikes have them,this will work as we have done this on bikes were the caps are no longer avaliable.