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Maintenance & Technical => KX500 Original => Topic started by: kxraptor on May 02, 2010, 11:57:18 PM

Title: Front fork adapting
Post by: kxraptor on May 02, 2010, 11:57:18 PM

I have a '93 kx500 ,I would like to adapt a newer YZ,RM,CR or KX fork to my exising frame.Has anyone done this?

Title: Re: Front fork adapting
Post by: don46 on May 03, 2010, 02:50:36 AM

you can do it with a little ingenuity, I just put a set of o5 250f forks on a KX 500 frame. the easy way would be to call emig racing and tell them what forks you want to put on and have them install the shaft for the 500. The hard way is to use a shaft from an older 250/500 and press it into the lower clamp, be warned that not all 500/250 shafts are the same size as the newer ones in both diameter and length, for sure length and in some cases diameter.

Title: Re: Front fork adapting
Post by: Motorrad on May 03, 2010, 03:54:05 AM

Quote from: kxraptor on May 02, 2010, 11:57:18 PM

I have a '93 kx500 ,I would like to adapt a newer YZ,RM,CR or KX fork to my exising frame.Has anyone done this?

I'm 90% done putting a 2008 kx front end on my 91 k5.  Had emig racing make me an adaptor stem to run the 08 forks.  Everything bolts on doing it this way.