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YAY! KDX Build

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Goat:
Got some pics. I'll get more detailed pics of mounts and stuff when I strip it down for paint. Everything is turning out nicely. Had an extra set of front hubs so I cleaned them up and painted green along with the brake caliper bracket. Found Kawi Green Rustoleum engine paint good for up to 500* and Wheel clear coat at Menards yesterday. It goes on real smooth and looks pretty good for rocker can paint. I'm getting excited! 

I forgot to mention that I bought a 87 TRX250X shifter locally because it's steel and I'm able to modify it to work. The shifter needed to come out from the engine about 3". I used some angle iron. Cut the knuckle that goes on the shifter shaft off and welded it to the angle iron. Then took the remainder of the shifter and welded that to the face or the other side of the angle iron. It's in the perfect location for my big feet lol. Should work perfect. It's strong but not too strong that it wont bend if I somehow hit a stump or something. It doesn't look the prettiest right now but everything will be cleaned up and smoothed out before paint.

81cr450:
Oh wow your ADHD is showing  :-o. I want a bike  wait no I need another bike hey but wait what about a 4-wheeler. Sounds as bad as me. Looks like a fun project, & man you found some deals.

Goat:
Hey now leave my ADHD out of this lol. I always have to have at least 1 project or I go crazy. I have 3 projects at the moment. Even more in my head but haven't started working on them yet.

Quads are a way to see how creative you really are or can be. Pretty much endless possibilities. Figured I'd start with a small smoker and if that doesn't put a huge smile on my face I guess I'll throw the 500 in there lol. KDX looks like a beaten child. That is why it was the engine donor. But if it doesn't ride like I want it to I guess I'll pull my baby apart. I can always find another K5 engine to rebuild and throw back in the dirtbike.

The quad swingarm had a couple cracks so I ordered some Alumaloy rods to try out. I finally got them in the mail today. All the videos I watched on the process of using Alumaloy they used a propane torch. I tried but it just wouldn't get hot enough. I think there is just too much metal to keep hot. Gonna barrow my dads acetylene torches tonight. I took pics of before the repairs and will take some after pics and then post them up. Hope it works like they say it does.

Goat:
Well I test rode the kdx quad. Ran excellent, even pulled a wheelie pretty easy. The front wheel bearings, tie rods, and a-arm bushings were too far gone to keep riding. It had massive shake and would dart in directions I didn't care to go.

I got it all stripped down at the moment. Bought a hand held spot blaster and some black oxide to strip the rust and paint off everything. The spot blaster is just a cheap one from Tractor Supply so we'll see how it works. I will get plenty of pics for everyone to see. Headed to the garage to start cleaning everything up.

81cr450:
You put enough air pressure to that spot blaster & it'll surely take the flesh, I mean paint off.
Your alumaloy swinger welding has me curious did you get some pics on that & how'd it go?

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