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Maintenance & Technical => KX500 Original => Topic started by: vaaprider on June 15, 2009, 05:25:14 AM

Title: Pipe Mount pictures
Post by: vaaprider on June 15, 2009, 05:25:14 AM

Does anyone have close up pics of the top pipe mount (hangs from backbone above the cylinder head.)? Mine is broken in the middle (half a circle is all that is left) and I would like to fab a new one but I need to know what the original looked like. Thanks

Title: Re: Pipe Mount pictures
Post by: tharden on June 15, 2009, 07:14:53 AM

I have had the same problems with my bike and welded a 1/8" piece of plate on it and then it broke.  I later cut off the entire bracket and then made a bracket that wrapped around the frame under the coil with a piece of rubber under it with the isolator mount.  It has not broke thus far and really does a good job at isolating the vibration from the pipe to the frame. 

Title: Re: Pipe Mount pictures
Post by: vaaprider on June 15, 2009, 07:35:00 AM

That sounds like a winner
Thanks.

Title: Re: Pipe Mount pictures
Post by: TheGDog on June 15, 2009, 07:27:26 PM

Quote from: tharden on June 15, 2009, 07:14:53 AM

I have had the same problems with my bike and welded a 1/8" piece of plate on it and then it broke.  I later cut off the entire bracket and then made a bracket that wrapped around the frame under the coil with a piece of rubber under it with the isolator mount.  It has not broke thus far and really does a good job at isolating the vibration from the pipe to the frame. 

Hello, could you please take some pics of what you're describing here?  If not pics... then perhaps a quick drawing/sketch of what you did?  Thanks man.

Title: Re: Pipe Mount pictures
Post by: tharden on June 16, 2009, 04:48:00 AM

I still have not got around to trimming the rubber but here it is.

(http://i281.photobucket.com/albums/kk237/redsp125/th_100_1825.jpg) (http://s281.photobucket.com/albums/kk237/redsp125/?action=view&current=100_1825.jpg)

(http://i281.photobucket.com/albums/kk237/redsp125/th_100_1827.jpg) (http://s281.photobucket.com/albums/kk237/redsp125/?action=view&current=100_1827.jpg)

(http://i281.photobucket.com/albums/kk237/redsp125/th_100_1829.jpg) (http://s281.photobucket.com/albums/kk237/redsp125/?action=view&current=100_1829.jpg)

Title: Re: Pipe Mount pictures
Post by: TheGDog on June 16, 2009, 10:04:33 AM

Quote from: tharden on June 15, 2009, 07:14:53 AM

I have had the same problems with my bike and welded a 1/8" piece of plate on it and then it broke.  I later cut off the entire bracket and then made a bracket that wrapped around the frame under the coil with a piece of rubber under it with the isolator mount.  It has not broke thus far and really does a good job at isolating the vibration from the pipe to the frame. 

Thank you soo much for the pics!

So... if I'm reading this paragraph right... what I'm looking at it some sorta metal strap piece, layered with a rubber strap piece underneath of it (in-between the metal of the frame and the metal of the strap)... bent around the frame backbone there?

so... you used the same 1/8" plate metal (mild steel I assume?) for this as well?

Title: Re: Pipe Mount pictures
Post by: tharden on June 16, 2009, 12:20:50 PM

1/8" mild steel 1" wide is what I used.  The idea came from the forever vibrating Harley Davidson.