Maintenance & Technical > KX500 Steel Frame Conversion (SFC)
my 2001 KX 250/500 conversion
KXer:
Nice work Don. That is a piece of art right there. I would love to have something like that.
gwcrim:
KXer, did you fit your oversized tank on the bike? I'm wanting to do the same and wanted some direction.
KXer:
It needs to go under the heat gun again for final fitment. That has been a back burner as I am still waiting on my water pump seal and counter shaft o-ring seal. The desert tank will be next though as this is a thirsty pig. lol.
KXer:
Well my bike has been kicking my arse. After the initial shake down, I found that I had oil leaking from the counter shaft (o-ring) and the water pump (seal). well I replaced them both. In doing so I have been trying to figure out a better way to dent in the pipe around the radiator hose coming out of the cylinder. I'm close. I dented the pipe a bit more, and then wrapped the hose in header wrap. We will see after this weekend how it held up. In doing so I seem to have stripped one of the threads in the cylinder. d**n.
Then I found the counter shaft to still be leaking with the new o-ring so I went to ACE Hardware and bought a new o-ring with the same ID but larger OD. Fit that on the shaft and then had to grind down the spacer just a hair. Seems to be holding oil now.
Heading out to Glamis tomorrow morning, I'll report back with how she did. I'll try to get more pics up too.
Still no desert tank. Haven't made it back into the shop.
don46:
The pipe is pretty tight, even after lovingly massaged, what I do when it's time to come off is drain the coolant and loosen the hose clamp and 2 srews on the cylinder and it comes off no problem, but of course its a 500 so you don't hardly ever have to take it off.
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