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2001 KX500 Kawasaki Supermoto

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sandblaster:
Well... It's been about 6 years since I built this bike when catastrophe happened..
I was climbing a dune and misjudged the amount of speed it would take to just barely clear the top so I had to wind this baby up and leave it there for about 10 seconds... I made it to the top when I heard a rattling sound... I shut the engine off and got towed behind a side by side a few miles back to camp in the deep sand.

I just let the bike sit in the garage for the last several months because I thought that I had ran it too lean and smoked the piston...
Well... the piston was smoked but not from being ran too lean...

sandblaster:
As soon as I saw it I had a feeling I knew where that small bolt had come from...



In one of my "How To" threads I specifically say that if you use a VF2 reed that you need to take all the bolts out and use thread locker on them.
Apparently the Blue I used wasn't enough... So next time I will use the red...  8-)

So here my baby sits in need of some love...  :lol:



After I get some fork cleaner in town tomorrow I will rinse out the bottom end and get it prepped for a test top end.
Yes.... Test top end....  :evil:

DoldGuy:
Mike,

I thought you had one of Adams?

http://www.kxriders.com/forums/index.php/topic,11799.msg100869.html#msg100869

sandblaster:
I do... but when I built this engine I didn't  :-D
But I can assure you that I will get one for each of my K5's..

umberto:
When is the KTM/KX500 scheduled to be up and running?

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