KX Riders
Maintenance & Technical => KX500 Original => Topic started by: martinfan30 on October 05, 2010, 01:43:42 AM
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Life has finally calmed enough to allow me time to build my ride!
Gray Hammer Tone powder coat looks cool! More parts today!
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Martinfan,
The frame looks great & I really like the color. Make sure that you sand down to bare metal where the coil mounts & run a tap thru the treads, otherwise you will have a ground, but it will cause some headaches in the future. I would also recommend at least one motor mount be sanded down also to ground the motor. I found all this out to be important after my first frame that I had powdered many years ago & have made sure I do it on all my frames now even if they have not been powdered.
Keep us updated on your progress!
DoldGuy
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Nice lookin frame, also diggin the "cruiser" in the back
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Thanks for the tip DOLDGUY. They used rubber plugs in all the holes, worked well to keep paint out of the threads.
Roostdaddy, thanks! The FJ40 is a 69, diff locks, lift, winch... A real crawler!
Just got these back today... Gray powder coat on the swingarm for my custom decals I got from an idea on here. Silver Hammer Tone on the kicker, rear brake lever, and various brackets and covers. Looks killer! Cant wait to assemble!
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Nice cruiser. I have a 67. Nv4500 trans. Etc etc etc.
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That looks awesome, who did your paint job? Did everything get baked on? Bad A$$!
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That looks awesome, who did your paint job? Did everything get baked on? Bad A$$!
Thanks bro! Ya its all baked on powder coat, 400 degrees I think.
It's a company called "Alltizer", it's in Moundhouse Nevada just outside of Carson City. They do excellent work and so far, for the frame, and all the stuff above it's been 200 bucks.
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Progress! Got my engine together. Window piston, ported it myself, V2 reeds, new crank bearings and seals. Front fender is for an 07 KXF250, bolted right up!
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Looks Awesome Man! Keep up the good work!
Fitz
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Dang dude, gotta stop putting these ideas in my head, my wife is gonna kill me! Everything I see on your build I want! I might kill over once you put your completed pic up!
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Dang dude, gotta stop putting these ideas in my head, my wife is gonna kill me! Everything I see on your build I want! I might kill over once you put your completed pic up!
Hehe lol guess thats why i'm divorced! :-D
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what front fender is that? Ill be ordering one soon for my rebuild and I like the looks of this one best.
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what front fender is that? Ill be ordering one soon for my rebuild and I like the looks of this one best.
07 KX250F. Looks killer!
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Couldn't help myself... Got a smoking deal on a new FMF Gnarly Dez pipe. 100 less than retail. Just has a couple small scratches.
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i hope your not going to ride that nice bike. Put it in your living room to look at every day.
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i hope your not going to ride that nice bike. Put it in your living room to look at every day.
Ahh hell! You and my co worker(a pumpkin rider) give me grief for making it too nice LOL! My dad restores 70's era dirt bikes and his bug bit me with my KX5!
I guess I just wanted to make something out of it that I have never seen on a K5. It is fun for sure! The suspension work is going to be the priciest part of this build, but trust me... I WILL be spanking 450's and 520's....
And yes, I thought of a way to hang it up in my living room at one point lol
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Up dates?
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Up dates?
Well, not really. Money is tight right now. Have been using side job money to pay for stuff as I go. I am getting ready to TIG up my sub frame where the chain rubs them. Then have it powder coated chrome.
I found the Japanese symbol for POWER, and having a local sign shop make me some decals. Plan on putting them on the black radiator guards, should look sweet!
I just ordered new cables, grips, and levers today.
Then all I have to do is shell out some cash for re-spring/re-valving of my suspension. Hopefully be done by XMAS, for a snow ride!!! :-D
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2 years to get to this point? Where has the time gone??? Re-valved and re-sprung suspension done by a local susp. guru. All I need is number plates and radiator shrouds.
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Really coming together. Can't wait to see finished product.. sweet.
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Keep it going as best you can! There needs to be more completed KX500 rebuilds out on the dirt, and less builds still sitting in the garage being rubbed with a diaper! :-D(ode to ferris beauler's day off, remember the farrari :-) ) I am as guilty as the next man though....
As I sit here at my work desk pretending to be busy writing manuals but really looking on kx riders, two guys on dirtbikes just flew by on the snomobile trail outside the shop!!!!!!!!!! bastards! It's frickin 20 degrees outside!!! Can't blame them though, I should be out there too!! :evil: work sucks!
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Couple new pics. Had a friend TIG the worn down spot on the subframe where the chain wears on the subframe. I wanted to mock it up and check clearances before I sent the subframe to the powder coater. What do you think?
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you should weld a thin steel plate the the subframe so the chain will hit that
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you should weld a thin steel plate the the subframe so the chain will hit that
Can't weld steel to aluminum.
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I have a thin piece of STAINLESS STEEL. rivited (with stainless rivits). to the subframe..
Looks pretty, doesnt rust. and protects the subframe.. as one nice property of stainless, the more you rub on it, the harder it gets...
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I have a thin piece of STAINLESS STEEL. rivited (with stainless rivits). to the subframe..
Looks pretty, doesnt rust. and protects the subframe.. as one nice property of stainless, the more you rub on it, the harder it gets...
:-o :-o
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I wanted to avoid riveting a piece to the sub frame, so I had a piece of aluminum welded into the subframe. A little more strength, just wondered what ya'll think of the clearance between the chain and the thicker piece of sub frame..
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I wanted to avoid riveting a piece to the sub frame, so I had a piece of aluminum welded into the subframe. A little more strength, just wondered what ya'll think of the clearance between the chain and the thicker piece of sub frame..
I tried alum before I went to stainless... In one H&H race I wore through it and the subframe, and could see inside the subframe... Keep an eye on it
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d**n this sucks. I want to powder coat it, but I know d**n well whatever I do it's going to eat through.....
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martinfan30, check out this post of the subframe mod I posted a while back: http://www.kxriders.com/forums/index.php/topic,7384.msg56415.html#msg56415
Stainless steel is the best thing to use for this application.
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martinfan30, check out this post of the subframe mod I posted a while back: http://www.kxriders.com/forums/index.php/topic,7384.msg56415.html#msg56415
Stainless steel is the best thing to use for this application.
Ok, thanks Tom!
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Took her out today... WOW. I have never had a bike with the suspension set up for me specifically. I can't tell you what a difference in handling and stability it made! I haven't ridden in almost a year, and I felt faster than before! Not to mention the power! :evil:
Met up with some friends on crf450's. Need I say how it turned out? LOL they kept wanting to drag over and over. I think I hurt their feelings...
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Nice looking Bike.
I have a friend that had a crf 450 and bragged about how fast it was and than i told him I have a kx500 and he got real quit. :-)
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Nice looking Bike.
I have a friend that had a crf 450 and bragged about how fast it was and than i told him I have a kx500 and he got real quit. :-)
Thanks! Ya it was kinda funny. Not only did I pull the hole shots off starting in second, but every upshift (including fifth) brought the front end up. Then it just kept pulling, and pulling... Increasing the lead the whole time! I am in love! LMAO
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Very well done. Makes me want to re-do my bike again.
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Very well done. Makes me want to re-do my bike again.
Thanks Goat. I the bike, but I too am wanting to redo it already. I'm thinking my engine in a 250F chassis...